Original sentence: </ref> unchanged by any past intimate connection or experience, leads to the abstraction of unadulterated purity (see below).As in ,00.html 'Sex revolution robbed us of fertility',] The Australian 15 September, 2007
Edited sentence: Also by extension from its primary sense, the idea that a virgin has a sexual "blank slate", unchanged by any past intimate connection or experience, leads to the abstraction of unadulterated purity (see below).As in Latin, the English word is also often used with wider reference, by relaxing the age, gender or sexual criteria.Hence, 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 last usage, virgin simply means uninitiated