#virginity

Virginity can be lost by a thought. ↗

— St. Jerome

#thought #virginity

I am certain you are not one of those dreary fellows one reads of who demands that their lady friends be in possession of a maidenhead. Mine was taken by a marrow two years ago.” “A marrow, Miss Pertwee? The vegetable that the Italians call il zucchine?” “The very same.A most particularly bold and impetuous hot-house marrow. It was quite the ravishment, I can assure you.” “I consider it no dishonor at all to be preceded by so noble a vegetable. ↗

— Vinnie Tesla

#vegetables #virginity #age

His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in alarm, as if he was forcing a lock, as if he was breaking and entering. It was the first time he'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#virginity #anger

Say there’s this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you’ve been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it’s almost as if you don’t want to change. Because you’ll miss the person you were before. ↗

— Bennett Madison

#virginity #change

...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#virginity #courage

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#humour #sex #virginity #experience

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#eternity

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#been #find #haven #i #lost

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us. ↗

— William Inge

#humor #love #promiscuity #sex #virginity