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The loss of one's virginity is a special event that should be marked with caring, love and appreciation. First-time sex serves as an important, maturing step in a person's life, no matter what age. However, sexual activity does carry risk, such as pregnancy and transmission of STDs. more »
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A virgin (or maiden) is, originally, a woman who has never had sexual intercourse. Virginity is the state of being a virgin. It is derived from the Latin virgo, which means "sexually inexperienced woman", used typically of adolescents, but also of older women, and even goddesses.
As in Latin, the English word is also often used with wider reference, by relaxing the age, gender or sexual criteria."AHD"> in American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Hence, more mature women can be virgins (The Virgin Queen), men can be virgins, and potential initiates into many fields can be colloquially termed virgins, for example a skydiving "virgin". In the last usage, virgin simply means uninitiated.
Also by extension from its primary sense, the idea that a virgin has a sexual "blank slate","Shanahan">"The emotional stress of serial non-marriage plays havoc with the possibility of partnering for life." Angela Shanahan, The Australian 15 September, 2007. unchanged by any past intimate connection or experience,Shanahan /> leads to the abstraction of unadulterated purity (see below). Hence, virgin can even be used with non-human referents. Unalloyed metal is sometimes described as virgin.AHD /> Some cocktails can be described as virgin, when lacking the alcoholic admixture.AHD /> Similarly, olive oil may be called virgin if it contains no refined oil and has an acidity below 2%, or extra-virgin if it comes from a cold pressing with an acidity below 0.08%.AHD />
The last instance also incorporates yet another association of virginity—the notability of its loss. More properly, the association is with the significance of the addition of a new status, rather than a loss. Hence this association is typically found in references to the first instance of a potentially extended series of like events. Just as extra-virgin olive oil is from the first pressing, so a maiden or virgin speech is an incumbents first address. The same metaphor, using the synonym maid read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity
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