VIRGINITY QUOTES II

quotations about virginity

Virginity ... is the image and practice of perfection, the highest form of life, an imitation of the angels.

SARAH SALIH, ANKE BERNAU & RUTH EVANS

Medieval Virginities


There is an unnecessary, perhaps even counterintuitive, relationship between virginity and procreation. A commitment to perpetual virginity, or even a fetishization of the value of virginity, conflicts with a procreative mandate. The Virgin Mary, who combines the inherently opposed values of virginity and maternity, stands as an exception to this rule, a fact that accounts, at least in part, for her iconic status.

CORRINNE HAROL

Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature


Virginity as integrity of the flesh and freedom from sexual experience is natural to human beings from their birth. But virginity as a virtue is that virginity which is freely chosen for the purpose of serving God more completely, of giving the mind to the contemplation of divine things in the absence of family cares and with the sacrifice of family joys.

PAUL J. GLENN

A Tour of the Summa


For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer -- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral") girl and therefore worthy of praise.

JESSICA VALENTI

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women


Virginity can be lost by a thought.

ST. JEROME

attributed, Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight


I have a secret no one has probably ever told you before: Losing your virginity doesn't have to be a big deal. I know. Everybody remain calm. Society and sex culture has hyped up losing your virginity to be like, OMG, MAYBE THE BIGGEST F***ING THING YOU CAN DO IN YOUR LIFE. And, while YES, it is totally bizarre and something that absolutely demands responsibility, communication and lots and lots of consent, the actual having-sex-for-the-first-time part is pretty ... meh.

JAMIE LEELO

"Why You Should Lose Your Virginity To Someone You Don't Love", Elite Daily, February 16, 2017


If virginity is so inherently significant to humans, then why are men and women's virginities given differential values?

ALLISON DANISH

"Virginity is a social construct", The Rocky Mountain Collegian, March 8, 2017


The "teacher" used a piece of tape to symbolize a girl's virginity. She would go around and stick it to all the football players, which was hilarious now that I think about it, and point out how the tape got less sticky over time. I think the lesson was suppose to be that the more sex girls have the less likely they'll be to find a husband because they'll turn into a slut or something.

ASHNEIL RANDHAWA

"Sex Ed? Still Inconsistent", The Pacifican, April 2, 2017


People have ascribed significance to sex for ages. It's human nature to create meaning from the seemingly meaningless; we search for purpose. There is nothing wrong with having many partners, waiting for just one or having none at all. However, I propose we cut out this virginity bullshit. Virginity is coded in certain ways that perpetuate heterosexism and make sex shameful. I believe that "the first time" is special and important, but it doesn't signify a reduction in human value or a loss of innocence. I propose that we move away from purity language and towards a new word/phrase and a new consciousness. Perhaps sexual debut is a more appropriate term.

ALLISON DANISH

"Virginity is a social construct", The Rocky Mountain Collegian, March 8, 2017


Purity culture teaches young girls that they don't own their bodies and that virginity is far more important than intelligence, self-confidence, humour and kindness. If you tell a girl her body is inherently shameful, she'll grow into a woman who hates herself and feels supremely uncomfortable in her own skin.... The irony is that purity culture is anything but pure. It is inextricably intertwined with oppression, lies, fear and mistrust. It breeds shame, sexual dysfunction and pain.

JEAN BALCHIN

"Enough of the shame game", Otago Daily Times, April 20, 2017


Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well


To me, losing your virginity is a necessary evil to get to all the good parts, like actually enjoying sex instead of dwelling on having sex.

JAMIE LEELO

"Why You Should Lose Your Virginity To Someone You Don't Love", Elite Daily, February 16, 2017


Some say no evil thing that walks by night,
In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,
No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

JOHN MILTON

Comus

Tags: John Milton


Which people desire to lose what they possess? A sick man his fever, a tormented husband his wife, a gambler his debts, and a girl--her virginity.

FRANZ GRILLPARZER

Notebooks and Diaries

Tags: Franz Grillparzer


It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

KARL KRAUS

Beim Wort Genommen

Tags: Karl Kraus


I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

Tags: Jacqueline Carey


I actually, until recently, thought I lost my virginity when I was twelve. In an unfortunate, tragic, and deeply Tegan-esque incident involving a hockey stick and two days in hospital, I was left with what many would call a "popped cherry". I do believe it was an event that helped define who I am because of the sheer ridiculousness of it all, but it certainly wasn't me losing my virginity.

TEGAN MARLOW

"OK, let's just accept that virginity is a myth", The Tab, January 12, 2017


Virginity is a complex conjunction of social, cultural, and psychological limits. It does not mean the absence of sexual activity so much as the restriction of certain culturally agreed-upon sexual activities.

CATHERINE DRISCOLL

Teen Film: A Critical Introduction


That, you were made of, is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well


I know this sounds incredibly lame, but I don't want losing my virginity to feel like I'm losing something. I want it to feel like I'm finding something.

SONYA SONES

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies