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While I am confident that there have been many reasons from the ridiculous to the sublime in the past for valuing virginity in females (hmmm I wonder if ancient Greeks and Roman males cared if their "boy toys" were virgins?) the entire concept certainly received a huge boost in western civilization due to the concept of Primogeniture. Females were inspected before the wedding night to insure that any possibility of a first-born son was actually that of the husband's lineage and not some recent lover's. Technology being what it was or wasn't, the hymen was the only reliable indicator.

Considering the width of cars is due to long-lasting Roman roads which were due to Roman chariot design, it is not surprising to me that something rooted in ancient medicine (disease), sociology, status and property as well as religion has carried on blindly. Personally, I have never had an interest in virgins. Enthusiasm does not make up for experience and enthusiasm can be created and recreated, while experience has no substitute.