In a message dated 4/30/2010 6:09:42 P.M., _rpaul@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:rpaul@xxxxxxxx) quotes my: >>I know a female who lost her virginity when riding a horse (That is actually pretty common.) and comments: >Among acrobats, perhaps. No. If that had been the case, I would have specified it: "it is pretty common, amongst acrobats, for females to lose their virgnities, while reading a horse. For an acrobat is NOT a common profession. My understanding is that in some sort of excercises involving the stretching of legs, etc, (riding a horse, a bike, etc.) can produce the breaking of the hymen. I suppose there are attested cases of such "losses of virginity". Emily Dickinson. JL Speranza ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html