EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.
EditorialA 1554 portrait of Mary I by Hans Eworth (foreground) and Elizabeth I by Quentin Metsys the Younger (background), from 1583, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. Elizabeth carries a sieve, a symbol of virginity. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.
EditorialJapanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp, and the bride's childish ornaments are burnt on a pyre. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engravin...
EditorialCostume of the inhabitants of Sennar: man with robe over white skirt 1, girl in leather fringe skirt with clam shell showing her virginity 2, woman carrying water in bowls on a yoke 3, El Melik Hassan 4, woman in veil and little cotton skirt 5, and man...
Editorial“Virginity Rocks” slide sandals, part of merchandise popularized by Danny Duncan on YouTube, in West Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 30, 2020. (Samuel Trotter/The New York Times)
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialJapanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp, and the bride's childish ornaments are burnt on a pyre. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engravin...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.