The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

5 January 2016

Female virginity, we’re increasingly told, is a psychological rather than a physical condition. It’s not something that can be “lost” or “taken”. Not every woman has a hymen, and it’s rarely some tough barrier that keeps a woman “closed” and which has to break and bleed; instead, it’s a flexible set of folds of mucous […]

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