virginity

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

First intercourse for the bride brings with it the various problems connected with virginity and the hymen.

As might be expected, girls in this situation bleed very little and perhaps not at all in the process of losing their virginity.

In recent times, when sexual matters began to be discussed more scientifically and more openly, the emotional aspects of virginity received considerable attention.

Central to Ambrose is the virginity of Mary and her role as Mother of God.

Ambrose viewed virginity as superior to marriage and saw Mary as the model of virginity.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women ; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.

One day, she claimed that the body of Artemis was too womanly and she doubted her virginity.

The two have been married for eleven months, but Anne still protects her virginity.

It is implied he lost his virginity in " Holy Cornholio ," as Beavis, who was being worshipped by a group of fanatics at the time, passed on his followers to Stewart, who took him to have sex with the women of the cult.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

while " chastity " meant " virginity ".

Some Fathers of the Church advocated celibacy and virginity as preferable alternatives to marriage.

Jerome wrote: " It is not disparaging wedlock to prefer virginity.

" St. John Chrysostom wrote: "... virginity is better than marriage, however good .... Celibacy is ... an imitation of the angels.

Therefore, virginity is as much more honorable than marriage, as the angel is higher than man.

Christ, Himself, is the glory of virginity.

As she remarked in her book, " The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's highly publicized comment about my virginity (" I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin.

The celestial character of Diana is reflected in her connection with light, inaccessibility, virginity, and her preference for dwelling on high mountains and in sacred woods.

She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains.

As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day.

Elizabeth's unmarried status inspired a cult of virginity.

At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".