Check the ever-magisterial _Law, Sex, and Christian Society_ by James A.
Brundage. I remember quite a detailed account of canon law debates
regarding the definition of female virginity but don't remember anything
on men. Nevertheless, it is there if it is anywhere.
Jo Ann McNamara
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, David S. Liu wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Dennis D. Martin wrote:
>
> > can refer equally to men and woman and is so used. It has to do
> > precisely with whether or not one has experienced genital sexual
> > intercourse or not.
> Does that mean a male person can only lose his virginity by having
> genital intercourse with a person of the opposite sex? I am skeptical iabout
> such a clinical definition written in medieval text, but surely that is what we
> mean by the term, "losing one's virginity" nowadays. Has anyone come
> across medieval definition (or sometihng that comes close to a
> definition) which would settle the question, what makes one a virgin?
>
> David Liu
> Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto.
>
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