maidenhead

“It is nothing, for ’tis common enough that a girl gives her maidenhead to a man” said a worldly voice in my head.

The other was a virgin, riding more than a pace, with a knight galloping after her, to have her maidenhead.

Hold it like a Victorian lady holds on to her maidenhead.

The night before the princess wed he tried to steal into her bed, insisting that if he could not have her hand, he would claim her maidenhead.

But hey, I grew up in maidenhead, so what do I know?