Editing Virginity (section)

===Concept===
[[File:Chastity (a virgin and a unicorn). Oil painting by a followe Wellcome V0017113.jpg|thumb|Virgin with a unicorn]]

The concept of virginity has significance only in a particular social, cultural or moral context. According to [[Hanne Blank]], "virginity reflects no known biological imperative and grants no demonstrable evolutionary advantage."<ref name="Blank" />

Medieval [[Bestiary|bestiaries]] stated that the only way to capture or tame a unicorn was by way of using a virgin as a lure, due to her implied purity.<ref name="Bestiary">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-bestiary/|title=Fantastically Wrong: Unicorns Dig Virgin Women, and Other Lessons From Medieval Bestiaries|last=Simon|first=Matt|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|date=November 19, 2014|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=July 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720191525/https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-bestiary/|url-status=live}}</ref> The topic is popular in Renaissance paintings.

Although virginity has historically been correlated with purity and worth, many feminist scholars believe that virginity itself is a myth. They argue that no standardized medical definition of virginity exists, that there is no scientifically verifiable proof of virginity loss, and that sexual intercourse results in no change in personality.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Purity Myth|last=Valenti|first=Jessica|publisher=Seal Press|year=2009}}</ref> [[Jessica Valenti]], feminist writer and author of ''[[The Purity Myth]]'', reasons that the concept of virginity is also dubious because of the many individual definitions of virginity loss, and that valuing virginity has placed a woman's morality "between her legs." She critiques the notion that sexual activity has any influence on morality or ethics.<ref name=":0" />

The urge of wanting one's spouse or partner to have never engaged in sexual activities is called a '''virgin complex'''. A person may also have a virgin complex directed towards oneself.<ref name="sohu">{{cite web|url=http://news.sohu.com/s2012/dianji-995/|title=Chinese entangled with female virgin complex|publisher=Sohu News|access-date=2018-10-23|archive-date=2018-06-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611195910/http://news.sohu.com/s2012/dianji-995/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Yan-yan, W.A.N.G. "The World with Light and Shadow——Analysis of the Sex Consciousness of ZHANG Zi-ing's Sex Novels." (2007): 006.</ref><ref>Morrow, Don. "Dreams and Dreaming and The Father In WP Kinsella's Shoeless Joe." Aethlon 19.2 (2002): 43.</ref>