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When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'me...

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not...

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[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.

But Dracula, the book, the myth, goes beyond metaphor in its intuitive rendering of an oncoming cent...

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I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all ...

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Angela CarterThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

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There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessn...

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Elizabeth HardwickSeduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that wi...

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Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...

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It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

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It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

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A maidenhead, the virgin's troubleIs well-compare-d to a bubbleon a navigable riverSoon 'tis touched...

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John ClareSelected Poems and Prose of John Clare

Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the c...

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, w...

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