# Can a woman who's had children realistically play a virgin? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867 "2013-07-18T17:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/61 "2013-07-19T01:17:55Z")
[The Master Thespian!](http://vimeo.com/15476780) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/62 "2013-07-19T01:27:31Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > ``` > Originally Posted by Procrustus > My wife had three kids and I'd be happy to lay her vagina next to a virgin's any day and ask you if you could tell the difference. > > ``` > > Well, alright… > I reckon I’ll take you up on your offer. I’ve never seen so many people volunteer to hop into a Procrustean bed. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/63 "2013-07-19T01:35:37Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > My wife had three kids and I’d be happy to lay her vagina next to a virgin’s any day and ask you if you could tell the difference. I’m not going to be able to concentrate on any of the rest of this thread for wondering how happy _she_ would be about this proposition. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/64 "2013-07-19T01:59:37Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’d send a duck in. Flippity Flappity _anas platyrhynchos_ Do things flow like water Off of your back? Don’t try to navigate Echolocational Tested by Mythbusters “Quack, damn you, quack!” ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/65 "2013-07-19T02:05:37Z")
I love this thread. I love the image it conjures of the OP watching family-oriented movies on some wholesome channel like The Family Channel in the enveloping darkness of the basement, and searching the IMDB and Wikipedia pages to determine the probable genital floppiness of various actresses. “Julie Andrews, you loose-pudenda-ed floozy”, she hisses, spraying Pringle crumbs at the screen, “you had a baby in 1962, you can’t play Mary Poppins with authority!” “Steve Carroll, you liar! You had a child in 2001, yet played a _40 Year Old Virgin_ in 2005. Damn you sexist bastard, with your wet penis and knowing eyes, attempting to deceive me with your wiles! I know better! I know you’ve wet your winkie in the well of womanhood. Don’t try to deceive ME!” ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/66 "2013-07-19T02:32:28Z")
This thread is why I love the Dope. I was stifling laughter in my cube all afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/67 "2013-07-19T02:45:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Flippity Flappity > _anas platyrhynchos_ > Do things flow like water > Off of your back? > > Don’t try to navigate > Echolocational > Tested by Mythbusters > “Quack, damn you, quack!” Copied and pasted into my _Higglety Pigglety_ book. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/68 "2013-07-19T02:45:57Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That’s implied by the “DH”. And it’s been long enough since that thing’s come up that I don’t remember what the “I” represents. (Don’t worry, I’ll search it up.) Ice. As in Ice Blue. > **[FYI: A lady's corset provides minimal protection against a dildo attack.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266235)** > > Okay, I’ll preface this by saying that my wife and I are in the SCA (medieval research/ re-enactment society), so you know that we’re not quite right. My wife was working on making a new corset. It’s a very nice corset. Heavy cotton on the outside... I was impressed at the fantastic memory Inner Stickler displayed. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/69 "2013-07-19T03:30:52Z")
I’m wondering if the OP thinks about the condition of the naughty bits of all the women who post here. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/70 "2013-07-19T04:22:07Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Here’s a serious suggestion. Watch\* The Music Man.\* Note the performance by Shirley Jones as Marian the Librarian. Do you believe she was “neat and tight down there?” > > She was pregnant while the movie was being shot. What?! ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/71 "2013-07-19T04:26:17Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > OP. do you have any examples of actresses whose portrayal of a virgin was ruined by their giant floppy vaginas? Perhaps with YouTube clips? I think YouTube blocks those. You’ll have to look elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/72 "2013-07-19T04:36:44Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > What?! ['Struth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man_%281962_film%29#Production_notes), though she apparently only learned that she was pregnant after filming began. The costumers had to adjust her costumes through the filming. It’s claimed that, during the filming of the scene on the bridge, when she and Robert Preston embraced, her baby kicked hard enough for Preston to feel it. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/73 "2013-07-19T05:13:38Z")
I never would have guessed. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/74 "2013-07-19T05:26:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’ll admit I’m having a hard time with it as I read the OP. Me too. > [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > This has to be one of the strangest questions I’ve read here. Is the OP serious? Doubtful. By the way, how is everyone expected to know (or why would they _want_ to know) the private details of the lives of all the actors they see in any production anyway? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/75 "2013-07-19T05:37:41Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’d send a duck in. If there’s _room_ to send a duck in, I’m calling the question settled already. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/76 "2013-07-19T13:21:18Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > T - Turns up out of the blue > R - Ridiculous question asked > O - nly one appearance and gone > L - Laughs for everyone > that will bring us all to > L - Lock it down, mods. It’s against the rules to call anyone a troll outside of the Pit, so don’t do this again in any other forum but that one. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/77 "2013-07-19T13:24:42Z")
OK, I won’t. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/78 "2013-07-19T13:32:02Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > No one is going to, I don’t know, measure my vaginal canal on TV. At least not on basic cable. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/79 "2013-07-19T13:32:44Z")
And really, showing up at random and bringing a good laugh to all is more elfin behavior than trollish. imho ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/80 "2013-07-19T13:35:47Z")
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