In Zimbabwe, a widely held belief that a man with HIV or AIDS can rape a virgin to be cured of his disease. This so-called virgin myth, perpetuated by Zimbabwe's traditional healers, has led to the rape of hundreds of girls, according to UNICEF.

"The youngest girl I ever came across was a day-old baby who was raped." picked by JoshSF49 6 months ago

Through spiritual or surgical routes, women give their first time a do-over.

"Religiously motivated women like Watts believe it's very possible to become a born-again virgin — if you believe it is so and pledge abstinence until marriage." picked by TchEngRox 2 years ago

A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary -- in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Scientists have spotted a rare class of galaxy that could represent a cosmic halfway house between two stages of galaxy development. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Click here, and your mind will finally be at rest. (NSFW, Language) picked by ReBoot 3 years ago

The holiest pretzel ever created, or the worst type of practical joke? You decide. Either way the bids are rolling in and people are getting rich quick. This brief look at the infantile iconic pretzel-shaping industry is sure to make you scowl. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

On Friday, the image appeared at 6:16 p.m. on a door of the three-car garage, and the crowd of nearly 400 people gathered in a tight semicircle to see for themselves. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

We haven't made love in 9 years. 9 years. We haven't made love. Or f**ked, or boinked, or screwed, or bumped uglies (I hate that one), or schtupped, or covered each other's bodies in hershey's syrup and licked our initials into each other, or had any real romantic connection at all. I understand why. She knows. She tries to get interested. She loves me, and I love her, but it'snot romantic love, ... read full post picked by bornbad 5 months ago

16 year old now an unwed mother. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

Cosmic debris stripped away from the wreck of colliding galaxies has been found by the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

The debris fields could shed light on galaxy formation and starburst activity in the early universe by allowing astronomers to retrace the paths of the colliding galaxies before they merged. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

To disguise the fact that she has had sex, Aisha has paid for painful surgery to “restore” her virginity. picked by kissmenow 2 years ago

Miss Meadmore says she has always been too busy for relationships and thought of physical intimacy as a 'hassle'.
(she's so cute) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

According to the U-S Association of Consecrated Virgins, fewer than 200 women in the United States and two-thousand worldwide have declared their perpetual virginity this way.
...Which may be why there are no Catholic suicide bombers. picked by Hoosker 3 years ago

This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Let's hope it doesn't behave like one and get all coy at the last minute! picked by Ziaphra 3 years ago

Long-lived magnetic fields are sustaining a mammoth network of spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole, a new study suggests. Previously, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Regular customers recalled seeing "obscene" covers of music CDs and "indecent" pictures in magazines blackened out, indicating that store was being monitored. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago

Katy and Ernie Kruger's first kiss was on their wedding day. It was her first kiss ever. (He's not talking.) picked by meggysue 7 months ago

Amazing flight demo! I hope I live long enough to do something like this. Richard Branson (Virgin) is just the guy to do it too.

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(BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson) picked by ogri2003 2 years ago

Astronomers have found nine of the faintest, tiniest and most compact galaxies ever seen. The little objects are hundreds to thousands of times smaller and vastly younger than our Milky Way, lending support to a "building block" theory in which hundreds of the tiny galaxies merge together and form larger bodies of stars. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago