The "Virgin Taboo" phenomenon

According to reports, in some primitive aboriginal tribes in Australia, there is a "Virgin Taboo" phenomenon. When someone in the tribe gets married, people come to congratulate them one after another, and everyone enjoys it. Dancing and drinking. When the orgy reached its climax, some members of the tribe gathered the bride into another room and used stone tools or other tools to break her virginity. Then, a person brings something stained with the blood of a virgin and shows it to everyone. At this point, the marriage ceremony is truly completed.

This is a very common phenomenon in human childhood. In some primitive tribes in Australia, older women break their hymens when a girl reaches puberty.

The Masa in Equatorial Africa, the Shakai in Malaya, and the Batas in Sumatra all have this custom.

Some tribes invite the husband’s friends, some ask the girl’s father, and some ask special figures in the tribe to complete this task. Among the Alfor people of Celebrity, the father of the bride plays this strange role. In some tribes of Eskimos, wizards help the bride break her hymen.

A girl’s right to her virginity

In ancient Greece, virgins offered their virginity to the representatives of the gods in front of the temple. In the Middle Ages, European lords had the right to a girl's first night, which may be a legacy of the taboo against virginity. In many parts of India, brides use wooden "elephant genitals" to break their virginity. But it is by no means the bride’s husband who fulfills this mission in life.

In some of the above-mentioned primitive tribes, the bride and the bride’s husband not only do not value the virginity of virgins, but even have a deep fear of virginity. Therefore, there is a phenomenon of marriage in which a third party helps to break the virginity. Psychologists and people who lack understanding of primitive human history and folklore will consider this phenomenon of marriage as incredible.

Some scholars believe that this is a kind of psychological sedimentation in the era of free sexual group marriage. The taboo on virginity is carried out by a third party, often by men in real or ritualized ways, sometimes by multiple men. Conducted publicly and ritually, this is a kind of memory and reenactment of the life of group marriage in ancient times, and it is also a kind of farewell to the life of group marriage.

Blood can cause crazy murderous desires

Some scholars believe that this is a way to prevent the crazy psychology of the early people's fear of virgin bleeding. Most primitive peoples have a mysterious psychology towards red. Red powder is often used as a burial object in primitive burials, believing that it can inject vitality into life. Primitive man, on the other hand, has a thirst for blood. They drank the blood of animals or enemies, and the blood would arouse primitive people's crazy desire to kill.

Among the Andamanese people on the Andaman Islands, there are many taboos when a girl has her first period, such as not being allowed to go out, not being allowed to use her original name, etc. The fear of bloodshed would bring terrible harm. This kind of harm is contradictory to the joy of marriage. As a way to avoid it, a third party must bear the possible harm.

The Anger of Losing Your Virginity

Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed that for women, first marriage leads to damage to the physical organs and psychological trauma of self-loathing. This psychology is often expressed as regret and regret for the lost virginity, and as a deep anger towards the person who took away his virginity.

The virginity taboo prevents the man who will spend a lifetime with the woman from becoming the object of the woman's inner anger, and prevents the woman from retaliating and being hostile to her husband due to the loss of her virginity. Primitive people regard women as mysterious and frightening, and are afraid that women will cause some kind of danger to their husbands during their first marriage. Therefore, the husband also believes that the virginity taboo is beneficial.