503. (2) Virginity is the crown of her chastity and a token of conjugial love. We call virginity the crown of her chastity, because it crowns the chastity of marriage and moreover is the mark of her chastity. That is why a bride at her wedding wears a crown upon her head. Virginity is also a symbol of the sacredness of marriage; for after yielding the flower of her virginity the bride commits and devotes herself wholly to the bridegroom, now her husband, and the bridegroom conversely commits and devotes himself wholly to the bride, now his wife. We call virginity a token of conjugial love as well, because it is a part of the covenant, a covenant whose end is that love may unite them into one person or one flesh. Men themselves, too, regard the virginity of the bride before their wedding as the crown of her chastity and a token of conjugial love, and look upon it as the very morsel from which the delights of that love are to commence and endure. It follows from these observations and those of the preceding discussion that after the maidenhead has been breached and her virginity tasted, a maiden becomes a wife, and if not a wife, a trollop. For the new state into which she is then initiated is a state of love for her man, and if it is not one of love for her man, it is a state of lust.