From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Sun 10 Jul 1994 - 12:51:18 EEST
Megaera "qualified" as a virgin due to my own interpretation of Orlanthi
culture: That it doesn't have a tradition of treating women and women's
bodies as property. Thus, rape does not damage "virginity", since it
was not a willing act. The woman's body may have been injured, but that
does not make her a "non-virgin" from a legal or religious sense.
The particular argument the Ernalda priestess used on Magaera was this:
"If someone steals your axe, does that make you a weapon merchant?"
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