Virgin

A virgin is most commonly seen as a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse. Typically, it refers strictly to a person who has not yet engaged in vaginal intercourse. In broader terms, it sometimes refers to one who has not engaged in sexual activities. The status of "virginity" is sometimes respected and valued in certain societies, especially in relation to views of many religions on sexual conduct before marriage. The term maiden is also sometimes used to mean a female virgin, although that can also refer to an unmarried or merely young woman. It has also (generally historically) been used to refer to a male virgin.

Religion

Christianity

Some Christian observers contend that virginity indicates a requisite state of holiness in terms of sexuality before marriage. For example, some believe the New Testament of the Christian Bible forbids pre-maritial sex of any form. Some theologians hold that once virginity is lost in a pre-maritial context then one is polluted or defiled from that state through the consequence arising from the corruption of retaining unlawful carnal knowledge through experience. There are terms such as a "born again virgin", where a person who has had pre-maritial sex and lost their innocence, may regain that state of purity back.

Related Topics:
Sexuality - New Testament - Christian - Bible - Born again

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Islam

Some fundamentalist Muslims believe Hadith number 2,562 in the collection of sayings of Muhammed known as the Sunan al-Tirmidhi. This saying is often rendered, "The least for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby."

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