Virginity
| Country | Boys (%) | Girls (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | 21.7 | 17.9 |
| Canada | 24.1 | 23.9 |
| Croatia | 21.9 | 8.2 |
| England | 34.9 | 39.9 |
| Estonia | 18.8 | 14.1 |
| Finland | 23.1 | 32.7 |
| Belgium | 24.6 | 23 |
| France | 25.1 | 17.7 |
| Greece | 32.5 | 9.5 |
| Hungary | 25 | 16.3 |
| Israel | 31 | 8.2 |
| Latvia | 19.2 | 12.4 |
| Lithuania | 24.4 | 9.2 |
| Macedonia | 34.2 | 2.7 |
| Netherlands | 23.3 | 20.5 |
| Poland | 20.5 | 9.3 |
| Portugal | 29.2 | 19.1 |
| Scotland | 32.1 | 34.1 |
| Slovenia | 28.2 | 20.1 |
| Spain | 17.2 | 13.9 |
| Sweden | 24.6 | 29.9 |
| Switzerland | 24.1 | 20.3 |
| Ukraine | 47.1 | 24 |
| Wales | 27.3 | 38.5 |
Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions that place special value and significance on this state, predominantly towards unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth.
Like chastity, the concept of virginity has traditionally involved sexual abstinence. The concept of virginity usually involves moral or religious issues and can have consequences in terms of social status and in interpersonal relationships. Although virginity has social implications and had significant legal implications in some societies in the past, it has no legal consequences in most societies today.
The term virgin originally only referred to sexually inexperienced women, but has evolved to encompass a range of definitions, as found in traditional, modern, and ethical concepts.Heterosexual individuals may or may not consider loss of virginity to occur only through penile-vaginal penetration, while people of other sexual orientations often include oral sex, anal sex or mutual masturbation in their definitions of losing one's virginity. The social implications of virginity still remain in many societies, and can have varying affects on an individual's social agency based upon location.
The word virgin comes via Old French virgine from the root form of Latin , genitive virgin-is, meaning literally "maiden" or "virgin"—a sexually intact young woman or "sexually inexperienced woman". As in Latin, the English word is also often used with wider reference, by relaxing the age, gender or sexual criteria. In this case, more mature women can be virgins (The Virgin Queen), men can be virgins, and potential initiates into many fields can be colloquially termed virgins; for example, a skydiving "virgin". In the latter usage, virgin means uninitiated.
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