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Defloration

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defloration
[def′lôrā′shən]
Etymology: L, de + flos, flower, atio, process
the rupture of the vaginal hymen. Defloration may occur during sexual intercourse, during a gynecologic examination, through the use of tampons, in athletic sports activity, or by surgery if necessary to remove an obstruction to menstrual flow.

Defloration
Rupture of the hymen, which typically occurs at the time of the first sexual intercourse, but also during digital vaginal examination, masturbation, or with tampons

defloration
Loss of virginity Gynecology Rupture of the hymen, which often occurs at the time of the first sexual intercourse, or during digital vaginal examination, masturbation, or with tampons. See Hymen.


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Part 5 features studies of moral crimes in the courts (Elena Brambilla, Daniela Lombardi) and the relationship between seduction and defloration (Giorgia Alessi).
A later phase in the development of the female, the vengeful reaction to the narcissistic injury of defloration, is perhaps better suited to act as a digestive for the bitterly denied "penis envy," possibly Freud's most controversial formulation.
Add to this incongruity the actual sheep elsewhere in the field just after we have heard Faure's "Agnus Dei" accompanying the defloration of Isabelle and we have a concatenation of associations that, as so often in Godard, are extremely funny in their surface absurdity but which are also deeply moving in the allusive range of implications that all the images, both visual and aural, might have for us.
 
 
 
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