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"ref": "2004, Margaret Doner, Merlin's Handbook for Seekers and Starseeds, iUniverse, page 94",
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"text": "The penis imagery becomes apparent: the nails are 'blunt' and 'large', designed to push through the fair skin in body parts (feet, hands) that had earlier been described in erotically-charged language. As if losing his maidenhead, Christ's body 'bursts' when entered, bringing forth a gush of blood that mars his white (womanly) skin.",
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"ref": "2015, Colin Wilson, A Casebook of Murder",
"text": "Almost immediately afterwards, Scanlan discovered that the marriage was legal; Ellie was his wife. He began to feel that he had paid an exceptionally high price for his maidenhead.",
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"text": "Put in but little Silver or Gold, for if you do, you quite spoil the Compoſition ; but inſtead thereof, add of Tradeſmens Bills for Cloaths, to the Value of 100 l. [¶] Laſtly, Take away the Girl's Maidenhead, and then the Compoſition is fit for Uſe.",
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"text": "Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say,\nHe's come to lose his maidenhead to-day.\nBe not too fierce; for he's but green of age,\nAnd ne'er, till now, debauch'd upon the stage.",
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{
"ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 363",
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},
{
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"text": "She prayed to Pallas, and by her help escaped from him in the form of a crow, rejoicing more to keep her maidenhead white under the blackness of the feathers than to lose it and be adorned with the fairest pearls.",
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},
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},
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"text": "The gender reversals that pervade this play continue mischievously in the man's maidenhead being the undisclosed secret.",
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},
{
"ref": "2004, Margaret Doner, Merlin's Handbook for Seekers and Starseeds, iUniverse, page 94",
"text": "[…] He said that Katheryn told him he should have her maidenhead, though it be painful to her. I told him to be gone with his empty promises of marriage. But I doubt not that Mr. Mannox has known her intimately.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, C. Harol, Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Springer, page 87",
"text": "[…] a young virgin makes an even trade of her maidenhead for a hat that she desires. She negotiates with the haberdasher, who originally stipulated for her maidenhead plus a crown […]",
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},
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"text": "The penis imagery becomes apparent: the nails are 'blunt' and 'large', designed to push through the fair skin in body parts (feet, hands) that had earlier been described in erotically-charged language. As if losing his maidenhead, Christ's body 'bursts' when entered, bringing forth a gush of blood that mars his white (womanly) skin.",
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},
{
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