History & The Arts
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
...psychological rather than a physical condition. It’s not something that can be “lost” or “taken”. Yet while not every woman has a hymen, and it’s rarely some tough barrier, the concept of technical virginity still focuses on whether there has been vaginal penetration by a penis. And surgical reconstructions are still performed, for example in Iran, to create a...
