Demivierge

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As Demivierge or Demi-Vierge ( dəmivjɛrʒ , from the French of demi , semi, and vierge , virgin ) refers to a girl or a young woman who already behaves with regard to males as a sexually experienced woman, but still no vaginal intercourse would have.

The figure is often portrayed as a seductress or as a temptation for the older man, which appeals to him but which he can never really own. The ambivalence is underlined by the link between physical virginity and “unchaste ideas”. According to Lissy Winterhoff, the “half-virgin” belongs to the literary type of woman, the fragile woman, to which the “femme enfant” ( child woman ), the “femme incompris” (misunderstood woman) and the “sweet girl” also belong. The term probably goes back to the novel Les Demi-Vierges (Paris 1894; German: Halbe Innschuld . Munich 1901) by Marcel Prévost . It was adopted by Anton Lindner in his work Die Barrisons from 1897, which, disguised as a translation from French, portrayed the fictional fate of the then popular dancer group Barrison Sisters . Eduard Stucken published a poem with the title Demi-vierge in his volume of poems Balladen in 1898 . At the beginning of the 20th century it found its way into everyday language and now also into the language of science . In Turkish, a distinction is made between the completely inexperienced virgin and the Yarım Başak, the half virgin.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ René James Hérail, Edwin A. Lovatt: Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-05893-7 , pp. 104 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. B. the article Demi-vierge . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1906, p. 629.
  3. ↑ Lissy Winterhoff: Their splendor must be an abyss, their lusts an ocean . The Jewish princess Salome as femme fatale on the stage at the turn of the century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1433-2 , p. 56 .
  4. ^ Digitized version of the 2nd, abridged edition from 1920 (pp. 45–47) in the Internet Archive .
  5. ↑ E.g. Karl Holl: Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941). A biography . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-1622-8 , p. 65.