Artemis, lounging in a natural pool surrounded by naked virgins (women who have never had sex with men and claim personal independence) and maidens (women who have never had sex with men):
“I’m the goddess of virginity” (being a woman who doesn’t have sex with men and claiming personal independence because Greek society placed wives as lower or as low as household slaves so personal independence was rare)
Virginity had a lot less to do with chastity and a lot more to do with keeping your personal life free and independent of make interference. (Greek) Christian scholars made the word into being a paragon of CHASTITY only when the Virgin Mary was glorified as 1
They didn’t want young Christian girls getting any tricky ideas about have sexual & personal independence from men so they instead made virginity into a construct of the desired pre marital chastity and docility to men they wanted from girls
And yes GIRLS because most marriages were child marriages back in the days. The Christian use of Virgin has subsumed the classical meaning so no Artemis is not an aromantic asexual she’s a vengeful lesbian willing to punish women for straying for dick
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