| In ancient Rome, the vestal virgin priestesses were required to keep their hymens — whether annular or crescentic — intact during their 30 years of service. |
| Chinese efforts to market fake hymens filled with red dye touched off a 2009 debate in Egypt's Parliament and became one more blot on the Mubarak government's record. |
| The laureate part doesn't sound very democratic either, conjuring images of Roman court flatterers, bewigged monarchs who commission dithyrambs for royal hymens. |
| His The Queenes Arcadia and Hymens Triumph are both billed as pastoral tragicomedies and were both acted before and dedicated to Queen Anne. |
| Their hymens were inspected by a male Army doctor who left the door of his examination room open, exposing the women to the leers of the guards outside. |
| Foster said girls whose hymens had been pierced were considered outcasts. |
