virginity

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Ms. Simanjuntak added, “The approach we use is simply: Virginity tests are not able to find out whether a woman is a virgin or not.”

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

Virginity testing is a highly invasive and entirely unscientific practice rooted in a patriarchal obsession with women’s “purity”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2020

“The vast majority of what’s sold around the world as ‘extra-virgin olive oil’ isn’t extra-virgin at all,” said Tom Mueller, the author of “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.”

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

Katha Pollitt, the author of Virginity or Death! and Learning to Drive, is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation.

From Time • Nov. 13, 2014

"I do not blame marriage," he says, "I only show the advantages of Virginity."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac