| All the better for you, for you can sell your maidenhead after having had two lovers. |
| Paintings symbolized Mary's hymen as an unbroken pane of glass, and poems like Pope's The Rape of the Lock figured the maiden's maidenhead as fine, breakable porcelain. |
| The nurse finally arrived and immediately began examining the girl's lip and maidenhead as Rhian looked on. |
| He took my maidenhead from me, and told me that I was getting the first of him as well. |
| The Water Spirit and the witch Jeibaba act as parental figures, trying to preserve their daughter's maidenhead. |
| The feud is also linked to male virility, as the numerous jokes about maidenheads aptly demonstrate. |
