"Losing virginity" - what is being lost here?

[zebo-the-fat]

Why would you want to marry a virgin? A woman who knows what she is doing in bed (or on the floor or kitchen table) is better!

[polymath257]

Virginity is a condition that is easily cured.

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Why would you want to marry a virgin? A woman who knows what she is doing in bed (or on the floor or kitchen table) is better!

As Carlin said: Forget about 72 virgins! Give me 72 whores that know what they are doing!

[The Grand Nudger]

Really, why are religions like Christianity and Islam obsessed with virgin women? Even that notion "Losing virginity." What exactly has been "lost"? 

Echoing Mathilda, the marketability of what was essentially seen as a waste byproduct in the manufacturing of sons.

[brewer]

[Aroura]

For some woman in some parts of the world, they could be put to death, so that "kit" is life to them.

[Bob Kelso]

Posted this on another thread recently, seems appropriate here too though. 

[vorlon13]

I thought most women who aren't virginal know the old chicken blood trick ??

[The Grand Nudger]

Intact hymens are almost as precious to the lord thy god as a string of severed phillistine foreskins.

[Crossless2.0]

Really, why are religions like Christianity and Islam obsessed with virgin women? Even that notion "Losing virginity." What exactly has been "lost"? Shouldn't that be an achievement like every other time we begin a new phase in our lives like starting new job, new school, buying new car etc. And yet exploration of one's sexuality, the beginning of one's sexual life, an almost universally cherished feature of human existence, registered as a "loss".

Or "Losing innocence" - How does one become less innocent after experiencing a sexual connection for the first time?

Innocence, purity, blah, blah, blah . . .

In the old days, it was about the woman's value to her father. A daughter without the standard hymen feature had to be sold off at a considerable markdown -- assuming you could find someone willing to take her off your hands.

These days, I suppose the 'advantage' is that a bride's virginity will ensure that there will be no embarrassing, negative comparisons with previous lovers, who didn't need a map and Sherpas to find her clitoris.

[Bob Kelso]

Intact hymens are almost as precious to the lord thy god as a string of severed phillistine foreskins.

I wonder what the exchange rate used to be.

“Throw in a fatted calf with those foreskins and you’ve got a deal!”