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Possibly this dependence of the woman on the man to unfold her accounts for man’s instinctive desire to marry a virgin. Unconsciously he may imagine that to make her most his own, she should have been influenced erotically by no other man.
Whether or not the future development of the general attitude toward marriage will include an insistence on the woman’s being a virgin when she enters the marital state, there are still some considerations concerning both the physical and the psychical condition of virginity, both of men and of women, that are pertinent today, and that seem advisable to take up at this point.