defloration

This is consistent with widespread pre-marital rites, in which strangers are required to perform the 'defloration' , and the completion of these rites enhances the status of the girls: there are numerous parallels in the ancient world.

For someone whose film oeuvre begins with a 'defloration' set to punk rock, Larry Clark has an amazingly subtle way with music.

Honeymoon cards showed women partially unwrapped from elaborate wedding veils and dresses in poses that underscored sexual 'defloration' as imminent.

Cascades of flowers suggested a bride ripe for 'defloration' , a trousseau of fine undergarments accompanied her on her honeymoon and she returned a sexual being.

The scene is strikingly played in shadows against a screen, through which suddenly the dancers erupt, only for the last act of the drama of 'defloration' to take place under an enormous sheet of blood red silk.