The Way of a Virgin: Being Excerpts From Rare, Curious and Diverting Books, Some Now for the First Time Done Into English; To Which Are Added Copious ... to Student, Collector and Psychologist - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Way of a Virgin: Being Excerpts From Rare, Curious and Diverting Books, Some Now for the First Time Done Into English; To Which Are Added Copious Explanatory Notes and Bibliographical References of Interest to Student, Collector and Psychologist

To us modems, blessed (or cursed) with a smattering of science, woman is virginal just as long as we know or believe her to be, physical qual ities notwithstanding. By the poet of the past, the romanticist; the mediaeval lover, and the ignorant, physical as well as spiritual proofs were probably required or expected. T O them, virginity was something tangible; to us it is not.

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