"Historically, people have used the term “virgin” to describe someone who has not had penetrative, penis-in-vagina (PIV) sex with another person. However, more recent conversations about sex and sexuality have led to a broader understanding of virginity.
PIV is just one of many forms of sex. A more inclusive definition of virginity and sex includes various types of oral sex, anal sex, sex using fingers, and sex using toys or objects. "
On the etymologie of the words virgin From latin virgo .
Significtation virgo = purity of emotion, sprit and mind. intact on her own. as a SAINT
the word 'loosing the virginity" become sexual on the period of the High médieval age.and progressivly become the first signification during the years until now.
which serves both as adjective and substantive. There is a synchronic opposition in Latin between uirgo and mulier 'woman', the last of which clearly alludes to sexuality, in such a locution as mulierem reddere 'to make someone a woman'. According to the Hittite formula natta=arkant- 'not-covered, unmounted', which is used for sheep and cows, this puzzling Latin word could be accounted for by a PIE privative compound ... 'not-covered, unmounted'. This inherited vocable would eventually belong to the PIE root ... 'to mount, cover' which is likely to have been used by cattle-breeders.