# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**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 21, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/101 "2013-07-21T03:11:41Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Thats not a phrase you expect to see in a thread about vaginal elasticity. I’m sorry, is there such a thing as a typical vaginal-elasticity thread? ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/102 "2013-07-21T04:15:59Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Basically, even though the actress no longer has a hymen, can it be assumed that the character still does, even though the character and the actress are sharing the same body? You flunked sex ed, didn’t you? (Psst. Not all virgins have hymens, either. Some girls are even _gasp_ _born without them!_) Oh, here’s a radical thought. Did it totally _BLOW YOUR MIND_ that Orlando Bloom played a _blonde_ in Lord of the Rings? And with waist-length hair! Crazy, right? Ruined the whole set of movies for me. Actually, no, it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/103 "2013-07-21T06:19:45Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > Oh, here’s a radical thought. Did it totally _BLOW YOUR MIND_ that Orlando Bloom played a _blonde_ in Lord of the Rings? And with waist-length hair! Crazy, right? Ruined the whole set of movies for me. I gave Patrick Stewart a pass for playing a mind-reader in X-MEN, but demanded my money back upon seeing him brazenly sit in that wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/104 "2013-07-21T08:27:30Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > You flunked sex ed, didn’t you? > > (Psst. Not all virgins have hymens, either. Some girls are even _gasp_ _born without them!_) > > Oh, here’s a radical thought. Did it totally _BLOW YOUR MIND_ that Orlando Bloom played a _blonde_ in Lord of the Rings? And with waist-length hair! Crazy, right? Ruined the whole set of movies for me. > > Actually, no, it didn’t. I’m sorry, but I just can’t deal with human actors playing non-human characters. Sure I can. Spock was hot. 😃 ---
**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 21, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/105 "2013-07-21T11:05:03Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I gave Patrick Stewart a pass for playing a mind-reader in X-MEN, but demanded my money back upon seeing him brazenly sit in that wheelchair. I didn’t mind him sitting in the wheelchair. I minded him complaining about the people who only wanted to date him because of his disability. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/106 "2013-07-21T12:47:40Z")
Your post history doesn’t mark you as one who posts unserious questions while insisting they’re serious, so I’ll answer in good faith. The answer to the question you asked in the OP is: Yes, you are supposed to imagine their vagina nice and tight, if you are going to imagine their vagina, and if you imagine the vaginas of those with children to be loose. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/107 "2013-07-21T12:54:26Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Basically, even though the actress no longer has a hymen, can it be assumed that the character still does, even though the character and the actress are sharing the same body? I can think of only a few films where that state of a character’s hymen was even mentioned, much less as a plot point. Do you have titles we can review? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/108 "2013-07-21T14:43:35Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I can think of only a few films where that state of a character’s hymen was even mentioned, much less as a plot point. Do you have titles we can review? Well there’s ‘Throbbin Hood Prince of Beaves’ and “Womb Raider”. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/109 "2013-07-21T14:48:10Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Well there’s ‘Throbbin Hood Prince of Beaves’ and “Womb Raider”. As I said, I could think of a few films. I was just wondering if the OP had the same viewing list. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/110 "2013-07-21T16:02:35Z")
Three pages in, nobody has mentioned foreskins. Could a circumcised actor convincingly play a Canadian, or an Aussie? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/111 "2013-07-21T16:16:07Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Three pages in, nobody has mentioned foreskins. > > Could a circumcised actor convincingly play a Canadian, or an Aussie? this is aided by wardrobe where they wear a hoodie, how tight they close it gives the effect. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/112 "2013-07-22T06:19:06Z")
Well, if I were seeing it at the theater I would expect the playbill to contain diagrams if not photographs preparing me for the artistic, cognitive leap required to set sail from the home continent of virgin vaginas to the undiscovered country of childbearing vaginas. Specific visual genitalialogical information about all the actors would of course be the most comprehensive solution. > [@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. Maybe you should charge a dollar per head for this, uh… exhibit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/113 "2013-07-22T13:25:36Z")
Madonna got pregnant while playing _Evita_. While the character never had children, she was definitely not a virgin. The costumes were adjusted to hid her growing belly, but halfway through the movie I wondered “When did Eva get a boob job?” And plenty of gay actors have played straight (Robert Reed as Mike Brady?) and in our enlightened times, straight actors have even played “teh gay.” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/114 "2013-07-22T14:08:20Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Maybe you should charge a dollar per head for this, uh… exhibit. …at the Museum of Natural History? (I can almost see the curators of The Whitney & The Guggenheim waving you off and shaking their heads _No_. ) ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/115 "2013-07-22T14:10:25Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Madonna […] was definitely not a virgin. She was however, \*like \*one. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/116 "2013-07-22T14:17:42Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Madonna got pregnant while playing _Evita_. While the character never had children, she was definitely not a virgin. Yeah, but come on. If there’s ANYONE who knows how to play like a virgin, it’s her. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867/117 "2013-07-23T13:43:01Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I never would have guessed. I thought you were a stickler for these things. > [@simster](#): > > That’s not a phrase you expect to see in a thread about vaginal elasticity. No, I think that’s EXACTLY what you’d expect… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-whos-had-children-realistically-play-a-virgin/663867.md?page=5)