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| 13 | 1456 | "In the View more quotes about first">first case, virginity is seen as something to be succeeded, and, in the second, it is seen as something which is conceived of as merely antedating the state of falarina. |
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| 13 | 1453 | ' 'Profalarina' designates the state preceding falarina, which is the state of the woman who has been penetrated at least once by a male". |
| 13 | 1454 | "Here," she said, "the state of virginity is regarded as one which looks toward, or has not yet attained, the state of falarina". |
| 13 | 1455 | "Yes," I said. |
| 13 | 1456 | "In the first case, virginity is seen as something to be succeeded, and, in the second, it is seen as something which is conceived of as merely antedating the state of falarina. |
| 13 | 1457 | It takes its very meaning from the fact that it is not yet falarina". |
| 13 | 1458 | "Both of these situations are quite different from the English," she said. |
| 13 | 1459 | "In English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the privation of a property". |