Virginity

Virginity is a term used as an expression of purity. In its most common context, it is a concept that refers to the state of a person never having engaged in sexual intercourse. A person who still has his or her virginity can accordingly be described as being a “virgin.” Alternatively, the term can also indicate a general lack of experience in other activities outside the realm of sexuality, or to some food and beverage products if it is purely produced.

The term virgin was traditionally used to simply describe a female unmarried person. It was introduced to English in the 13th century, and via French virgine derived from Latin virgo (Genitive virginis), which is composed of "vir" meaning "man" or "husband", and "genere", "created (for)", and already had the meaning of a female subject to be married or be acquired by a male.

In most societies, the status of virginity for women is respected and valued, particularly when there are religious views regarding sexual conduct before marriage. Female virginity is closely interwoven with personal or even family honor in many cultures. Traditionally in some cultures there has been a widespread belief that the loss of virginity before marriage is a matter of deep shame.

On the contrary, the loss of virginity for males before marriage, more often than not, serves as a rite of passage or initiation into adulthood or maturity. For a male, the association was more often with pride, that of conquering something to finally achieve manhood.

To males, there are no physical barometers or measure which will tell if one is no longer a virgin. Females, on the other hand, are judged based on their hymen, if it is torn or not. Historically, an absent or torn hymen automatically denotes a lost virginity. Many women possess such thin, fragile hymens, easily stretched and already perforated at birth, that the hymen can be broken, or merely disappear, in childhood, without the woman's even being aware of it. A hymen is commonly broken while riding a horse or bicycle.

On Technical Virginity

Technical virginity refers to a state whereby an individual can be sexually active without getting involved in a vaginal intercourse by a “true-living-male-penis.” Again, this is another measure in reference to a female’s level of virginity; but perhaps one can also apply it to males using the same logic and simply putting it as “a state whereby a male individual can be sexually active without getting his penis inserted in a ‘true-living-female-vagina’ at any time in his current life out of his mother’s womb.”

Assertions of technical virginity are often made for religious reasons to properly identify what makes one a virgin in the eyes of God but not necessarily to identify if the sexual activity is sinful or not.

So if you’ve been raped by a mad sex maniac oblivious that what he thought was your vagina was in fact your anus, then you are a certified technical virgin.

If you’re always playing with dildos and/or always getting it on with members of the same sex, you’re also a technical virgin.

If you’re also engaging in oral sex and/or mutual masturbation most of the time then you’re still a technical virgin.

You can have tons of all worldly sexual pleasures and still be a virgin just because you never got into a “penis in vagina” situation. Imagine that.

But then again, the concept of virginity varies from one person to the next and one culture to the next so you might think that you’re still a virgin after having been into all that except the vaginal intercourse but for others the mere involvement in any form of sexual activity means that it’s otherwise.


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