In the Aztec culture avocados were considered so sexually powerful that virgins weren't allowed to have contact with them. |
They then abandoned their mistresses and married girls from their own class, who were substantially younger and expected to be virgins. |
During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures. |
Europeans will be astonished to learn that in 2000 about a fifth of American 18-to 24-year-olds claimed to be virgins on their wedding day. |
He had already taken Cologne, where he was reputed to have massacred 11,000 virgins. |
I rather thought sacrificing virgins to their gods had gone out with the clothes boiler, but sometimes I wasn't too sure. |