Virgin mary cocktail

Youth by French virgin mary cocktail William-Adolphe Bouguereau. White has traditionally been associated with ritual purity, innocence and virginity in Western cultures.

Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions that place special value and significance on this state, predominantly towards unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor, and worth. Like chastity, the concept of virginity has traditionally involved sexual abstinence. As in Latin, the English word is also often used with wider reference, by relaxing the age, gender or sexual criteria. Conceiud o þe hali gast, born o þe virgine marie. Most of the OED1 definitions, however, are similar.

The German word for “virgin” is Jungfrau. Jungfrau literally means “young woman”, but is not used in this sense anymore. Instead “junge Frau” can be used. Jungfrau is the word reserved specifically for sexual inexperience.

As Frau means “woman”, it suggests a female referent. French, male virgins are called “puceau”. The concept of virginity has significance only in a particular social, cultural or moral context. According to Hanne Blank, “virginity reflects no known biological imperative and grants no demonstrable evolutionary advantage. Medieval bestiaries stated that the only way to capture or tame a unicorn was by way of using a virgin as a lure, due to her implied purity. The topic is popular in Renaissance paintings. Although virginity has historically been correlated with purity and worth, many feminist scholars believe that virginity itself is a myth.