Re: Male Virginity and Circumcision

Michael Nakis (nakis@ix.netcom.com)
31 Oct 1995 18:33:35 GMT

This is with regards to some remarks that elhulse@cats.ucsc.edu posted.
Thank you for your helpful advice about female anatomy, mr, ehm, "..".

1) a woman may have sex a billion times and never bleed once, even her
first time.

Agreed;

2) Hymens come in many shapes and sizes, and girls have been known
to be born without one at all.

Agreed;

3) A hymen can persist after many sexual encounters.

Agreed;

4) Therefore, a woman can be a virgin and neither bleed nor have a
hymen, and she can have a hymen even when she isn't a virgin.

Ooops. The problem here is, you are defining "Virgin" in a cultural
context, while I am not. From my purely biological point of view, virgin
or not virgin means hymen or no hymen, regardless of whether the person
has engaged in sex or whether she was riding a bicycle on a rocky road or
whether he was masturbating too hard.