[Avodah] besulos

[Arie Folger]

RTK wrote:
> Why bother saying that?  The number of  unmarried
> non-virgins in his empire -- and in any country you could name, before  the
> advent of the Pill -- would have been vanishingly small.

"... betulah ve-ish lo yeda'ah" (regarding Rivqah). If that was so usual, why 
did the Torah mention it, and why did 'Hazal comment on it, that she had also 
refrained from alternative sexual practices? It seems clear that both in 
Lavan's and 'Hazal's worlds woemn weren't as chaste as we think, despite the 
general difficulty Pfizer, Merck and Novartis had in delivering contraceptive 
pills in those markets.

Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger
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