Definition of "virgin"

On the other hand, the daughter of a clergyman repeatedly performed fellatio instead of genital intercourse so that she could remain a virgin.

1970 Marriage in Life and Literature page 169

As the years went on she became extraordinarily effective at fellatio but, despite the fact that she was Mrs James Baylor, age 32, she was still a virgin.

1974, The New Review, Volume 1, Part Page 15

among students we studied , 60 % of the virgin females had had oral sex experience

1987 Psychology and Personal Growthpage 208

A girl is a virgin until she experience penis-inside-vagina intercourse

1988 page 186

26 percent of virgin females have performed fellatio while 87 percent of nonvirgins have done so .

1992, Cosmopolitan, volume 212, page 177

I was a virgin. In my senior year of high school, I had experienced one inchoate handjob

1993 Santa Clara Review page 102

adolescents often define themselves as still a virgin while experimenting with oral sex

2004 The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships page 67

middle-school girls sometimes look at oral sex as an absolute bargain - you don't get pregnant, they think you don't get diseases, you're still a virgin and you're in control

2008, College Student Journal - Volume 42, Issues 1-2 - Page 183‎

Shepard: Are you telling me you're a virgin?Liara: "Virgin" does not have the same connotation in my culture as in yours. But is is true I have never done this before.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1

A Pike High School teen says most teens “think if you have oral sex you are still a virgin.

2012 Saying Yes! to Saying No page 21

she's never actually told the girls she's still a virgin—that the pinnacle of her sexual experience was giving a pretty cruddy handjob to Jared Wells

2015 In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel - Page 28

It's really a miracle I'm still a virgin at twenty-one in the first place. I guess my talent at blowjobs and handjobs paid off.

2020 Page 1139

This was the relation of the order of virgins to the Church from the latter part of the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century. The modern “sister” had no exact prototype in the Church of the first seven centuries.

1894, Authorized Report of the Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ..., page 109

The list of saints' days and festivals includes a number of the Romish holidays, properly so called, viz.: Lucian, priest and martyr, Jan. 8 ; Hilary, bishop and confessor, Jan. 13 ; Prisca, virgin and martyr, Jan. 18 ; Fabian, bishop and martyr, Jan. 20 ; Agnes, virgin and martyr, Jan. 21 […]

1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, page 26

It is evident that those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from monks; or if not from the order of monks, then they are wont to be made priests who keep themselves from their wives […] .

1900, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Second Series, page 366

It ought to have become apparent, however, that the well-established order of widows was the model for the newly developing order of virgins. Both orders earned their legitimization from the way of life adopted by their members […]

1994, Susanna Elm, `Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, page 174

According to Jerome's account, a young man, who desired to seduce a consecrated virgin of the church, at first attempted to do so through the standard means of seduction: namely, “with touching, jokes, nods, whistles, and the rest” (Vit. Hil. 21.2670–75).

2007, Todd C. Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses, BRILL, page 89

Grant, O Lord, I beseech thee, that the Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, may solicit thy mercy for us. I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.

2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press

Innocence and virgin Modestie […] / That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

He was now about twenty-three years old, and, though still virgin, the sex instinct that Miriam had over refined for so long now grew particularly strong.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]

From their embraces was born the handsome Actaeon, a naive boy, who had less excuse than other men, given that he was her son, for believing her to be a virgin. It's true that he was even more virgin than his mother.

1988, Hubert Monteilhet, Neropolis

Helvidius […] took the plain meaning of scripture to say that Jesus patently had brothers and sisters, so therefore his mother, Mary, had enjoyed a normal family life rather than remaining perpetually virgin.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 314

The white cold virgin snow upon my heart / Abates the ardour of my liver.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

There is something about virgin sand which arouses all the worst instincts of the detective-story writer. One feels an irresisitible impulse to go and make footprints all over it.

1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 1, in Have his Carcase

The same bounty of Summer, the same milde remission of Winter, with a more virgin and unexhausted soyle being materiall arguments to shew that modesty and truth receive no diminution by the comparison.

1650, Edward Williams, Virginia: More Especially the South Part Thereof

For today’s owners of surveillance capital the experiential realities of bodies, thoughts and feelings are as virgin and blameless as nature’s once-plentiful meadows, rivers, oceans and forests before they fell to the market dynamic.

2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian‎

The woman shook dangerously, an obvious virgin gunhandler.

2014, Jeremiah Sanchez, Eden's Scarecrow: Real Eyes

Wondering how some oil is somehow more virgin than regular virgin olive oil can be a real head-scratcher.

2013, Cheryl Forberg, Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies, page 62