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A virgin is someone who's never had sex.

Though some cultures view virginity as a positive it is generally in respect to females, and is a very chauvinistic attitude. Although it's better to get in a good deal of practice if you want to find a person/people you wish to commit to, using all of those experiences to benchmark your current partner can be perceived as being a total jerk.

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[edit] Commodity

Some cultures view virginity as something as a commodity and a largely desirable trait in a woman, like paying the father of a woman with the understanding she is a virgin. The Bible also seems to value virginity in a wife over the life of the woman. Islamic culture in particular makes mention of having 72 virgins in paradise after the person has martyred themselves. This translation is, of course, debated by many Islamic apologists.

[edit] Biblical use

In the Bible, the use of "virgin" for Mary, mother of Jesus, is for a Hebrew word actually meaning "young woman." Bethulah means "woman who has not had sex" (c.f. Isaiah 62:5); almah, the word used in Isaiah 7:14, means just "young woman" and only sometimes "sexually pure woman," the correct meaning to be ascertained from context.[1] Dictionaries were not invented until the 18th Century CE and before that words did not always have precise definitions.

The confusion arose when the Septuagint used the Greek word parthenos (sexually pure woman). This was the inspiration for the gospel myth of the Virgin birth. Thus, the Gospel of Matthew attempts to justify the divinity of Jesus with a prophecy that was never actually made.

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