Tag: Virginity

“No one has disgraced my virgin body.”[1] Virginity tests and early Christian ascetics and monks

Dr Despina Iosif

‘If there is a virginity test, I will take it’, the protagonist Leukippe in the Achilleas Tatius’ novel Leucippe and Clitophon, written in the third quarter of the second century, declared to her mother who refused since she wished to avoid all the gossip and attention this would …

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