Here are 29 interesting Virginity facts.
1-5 Virginity Facts
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis lost his virginity at the age of 12, to his father’s 18-year old girlfriend, with his father’s blessing. – Source
2. A 20-year-old female and a 23-year-old male auctioned off their virginity. Her highest bidder bid $780 000, and his highest bidder bid only $3000. – Source
3. Engagement rings evolved as a form of “virginity insurance” in the event that the groom left a bride-to-be “damaged” and unmarried. – Source
4. Jason Segal lost his virginity by performing Elton John’s “Your Song” on piano for a girl and claiming to have written it for her himself. – Source
5. For $700, girls can get their hymen rebuilt to fake virginity when getting married in China. – Source
6-10 Virginity Facts
6. Wedding cakes were originally white to symbolize purity and virginity. Since pure sugar was expensive, a whiter cake indicated your higher wealth and class. – Source
7. In 2012, female protesters in Egypt were subjected to virginity tests after being arrested. – Source
8. Grooms carry their brides over the threshold so the brides won’t seem too excited about losing their virginity. – Source
9. Traditional Samoans valued a bride’s virginity so much, the chief would break her hymen in public so the entire tribe could see his bloody fingers. – Source
10. In Korea, 23.1% of males lost their virginity to prostitutes. – Source
11-15 Virginity Facts
11. Joaquin Phoenix’s family was part of a controversial cult “Children of God”. Joaquin’s brother, River Phoenix (who died in 1993 of a drug overdose on Halloween Night) claimed to have lost his virginity there at 4 years old. – Source
12. James Franco wrote a book in which there’s a chapter written from the perspective of a woman who loses her virginity to James Franco. – Source
13. Hugh Hefner didn’t lose his virginity until he was 22. – Source
14. The song “December 1963 (Oh What A Night)” by The Four Seasons was initially supposed to be about the repeal of Prohibition but was eventually changed to be about a guy losing his virginity. – Source
15. Legislation concerning slavery in ancient Greece allowed guardians of unmarried women who lost their virginity to sell them as slaves. – Source
16-20 Virginity Facts
16. Cassandra Peterson (Elvira Mistress of the Dark) claims that she lost her virginity to Tom Jones but had to have stitches due to the size of his penis. – Source
17. The average Icelander loses their virginity at 15.7 years old. – Source
18. Bunnies were once believed to be hermaphroditic and able to mate without losing their virginity- that’s why the Easter Bunny is a symbol for Marie, with eggs being a symbol of rebirth, which is traditionally dyed red for Christ’s blood. – Source
19. Women in some countries put herbs in their vaginas to fake virginity causing the vagina to swell up and bleed during intercourse. – Source
20. A purity ball is an American formal dance event attended by fathers and their daughters which promote virginity until marriage for teenage girls. – Source
21-25 Virginity Facts
21. The white wedding dress was not meant to symbolize virginity; historically that color would’ve been blue. – Source
22. Selling virginity is legal in Britain and is not always regarded as exploitation by feminists, who may even participate in it. – Source
23. There’s a biologically immortal jellyfish that gets its virginity back every time it loses it. – Source
24. “Virginity” is linked to your intelligence, kids with higher IQ’s are less likely to loose it in their teen years. – Source
25. In the Catholic Church, there is a practice known as “Holy-transvestism” in which it is acceptable for a woman to adopt the life and dress of a man if it is done for the purpose of preserving her virginity. – Source
26-29 Virginity Facts
26. Female virginity doesn’t really exist the way we think. There is nothing that breaks or pops in a woman, and if something does, you are doing sex wrong. – Source
27. A British teen sold her virginity on eBay for £10,000 to pay for her college tuition. When interviewed, she thought that the man who was interviewing her was asking all the questions because he wanted a discount. – Source
28. Both Greek Goddess Hera and Aphrodite renewed their virginity annually. Hera did so by bathing in a spring called Kanathos and Aphrodite bathed in the sea at Paphos. – Source
29. On the northern coast of Colombia, it is common for a boy to lose his virginity to a donkey and it is believed that having sex with a donkey will enlarge your penis. – Source
