(July 5, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Jenny A Wrote:The way it worked was that when the girl was going to get married her father would take a cloth and ram it up her vagina, causing her to bleed indicating that she was a virgin a second ago. He would then keep the bloody cloth as proof of his daughter's (previous) virginity. If the new husband then started to whine that his bride wasn't a virgin the father would produce the bloody cloth as proof that she was.(July 5, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: God commanding people to stone women who do not show the signs of virginity when they are married is pretty brutal, particularly as the "signs of virginity" are not completely accurate. One would think that if an omniscient being made people, he would know that and not command that innocent women be stoned to death because they don't seem to be virgins when they are. (And if God were omnipotent, he could have made the "signs of virginity" accurate, but they are not.) But this is typical of the evil being called "god" in the Bible.
Just being an athletic young woman can break the hymen as early as eight. I did that. Blood in my panties scared my mother. The pediatrician was used to the question. It's common. Makes you wonder how many young women were stoned for it.
It was some sick shit but that's the way it was in old time Judea.
