John Cleland's 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the 'defloration mania' of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary medical depictions of first intercourse to show the ways that the theories and ideas presented in...

John Cleland’s 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the ‘defloration mania’ of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary medical depictions of first intercourse to show the ways that the theories and ideas presented in...

A major milestone in a woman's life is the loss of virginity, "defloration," with the breaking of the hymen. Psychoanalysis has paid little attention to the meaning of defloration to either women or men, and virtually none to the hymen as a part of the female genitalia. The reasons for this disregard or avoidance are explored. Utilizing the few psychoanalytic writings, mythology, literature, an...

Abstract Background Being a promising tropical woody oilseed crop, the evergreen and recurrent plants of Sacha Inchi ( Plukenetia volubilis L.) has complex phenology source–sink interactions. Carbon manipulations with control two treatments (reduce source, ca. 10% mature leaf pruning; reduce sink, fruitlet thinning) were conducted on 2.5-year-old field-grown P. plantation during early-wet seaso...

protecting hymen is related to sharia laws. sharia law has stressed on protecting honor, virtue, chastity and purity. in jurisprudence, the person who removes the hymen must be punished. this study aimed to review the jurisprudence of restoration of virginity. this study was based on a theoretical approach. it was conducted by studying the documents on this field and searching the topics on the...