All language subtitles for Jungfrauen-Report (1972)

this film was shot on location
on all five continents

Are you a virgin?
-No.

Do you regret it?
-No, one has to get experience.

Is your girlfriend a virgin?
-Yes.

Are you?
-No.

You don't want to marry as a virgin?
-No.

Are you a virgin?
-Sure.

Are you?
-Yes.

Would you rather be a virgin?
-If you were the first...

Are you a virgin?
Sorry...

Are you a virgin?
-I'm a Scorpio.

Have you slept with a man?
-How dare you

Are you a virgin?
-You again?

Are you innocent?
-Yes.

Dumb question.

Would you only marry a virgin?
-No, not at all.

Are you a virgin?
-Are you nuts?

And you?
-None of your business.

Would you prefer an innocent girl?
-Haven't tried it.

Excuse me, are you a virgin?
-Yes.

Do you want to marry as a virgin?
-No.

Virginity, purity, innocence:

Terms that decades ago were deeply
engrained in people's moral conscience

have been replaced by a simple formula:

Sex liberates, and liberation is good.

In the early days, women's abstinence

was an integral part of an ideology

that condemned girls
who lived by the motto:

"Therefore test,
who wants to bind himself forever."

Desire was the devil's work,

and only that which was received
in a state of purity could remain pure.

The experience of defloration
was closely tied to the awareness

of losing one's most precious thing.

The pain of defloration warned of
the sinfulness passed on by Eve.

This cycle of guilt
could only be broken by willful virgins

and wives who abstained
from pleasure in bed.

After everything school and church
had taught them,

women saw in this an irrevocable law
as old as the world itself.

We are in a time long before
the bible was written.

We meet two people
who could be Adam and Eve.

Man, once one with the plants
and the animals, had lost his ignorance,

and with it his innocence and paradise.

When man began to live consciously
he also began to love consciously.

The state of virginity
ends with defloration,

a Latin word that means
"withering away."

It is the flower's goal to attract
insects in order to be pollinated.

In the moment of pollination the flower
dies, and the fruit begins to ripen.

For ancient man the world
was full of inscrutable mysteries.

He believed nature
was controlled by gods and demons.

The phallus was the symbol of fertility

Sun, water, and phallus

were the primal forces
that kept the trive alive.

The concept of sin was still unknown,
but there were taboos.

Young girls were taboo.

Intercourse before sexual maturity would
have jeopardized their later fertility.

Infertile women, however
were useless to the community.

Not to infuriate the phallus,
girls had to keep their virginity

until the tribal priest
consecrated them

After that,
virgins were a disgrace to the tribe.

but who was
to spare the girl the discrace?

Those with power ruled,
and the women had to comply.

The priests weren't always
on the side of the lovers.

Tribal interests had to be protected,
and priests needed the gods' blessing.

Obviously the gods didn't bless
these young lovers,

and so the priest
didn't approve of them either.

The prettiest, blessed girls sacrificed
their virginity to the river god.

Only men of the noblest descent were
allowed to take the so deflowered women

In South-East Asia a person is expected

to regard sex as
a pleasurable experience.

Sex is expertly taught

and doesn't disrupt the social order.

The natives forgive minor affairs,
but despise passionate choices ot lovers.

and have, no place for somebody who,
ignoring social mores,

continues to make, his own choice instead
of taking a socially suitable partner.

People tried to fathom
the mysteries of life.

They let their hair grow and set out

to seek solitude
in search of the meaning of life.

But their minds were still weak,

and they were overcome
by carnal desire.

So they developed ways
to numb their bodies,

for they believed
that the body kills the mind.

They began to eat thistles,

for even eating
should be without pleasure.

They found ever new ways
to control their sinful thoughts,

but their minds were still too weak.

And finally, to suppress
their involuntary sensations,

they sat in an anthill.

They sat like this for weeks.

But the way to paradise
was not revealed to them.

The middle ages.

The tree of knowledge
was reduced to its sexual fruits.

Man's worst sin was to do
what God had enabled him to do:

to love.

The daughter of the 19th century
had the same desires,

but society didn't allow them.

The natural awakening of her young body
felt like Satan's work.

Unexpectedly, the blood of her first
menstruation burst from her body.

Anna!
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Do you want to ruin us?
On your knees!

Poor child!
Friedrich will be a good husband-

I hope so.

My poor child!

You know what I expect.
-Yes.

She's the most precious thing I have.
-I shall spoil her.

Humbug!
You are the lord of the house!

Friedrich, you're a man, after all.

But promise to honor
the mother ot your children!

Forgive me...

I now must...

Anna...

Forgive me...
-Friedrich, I...

It must be done...
-I want to be a dutiful wife!

Well, then!

Be brave!

All extramarital defloration had serious
consequences for a girl and her family.

We know of early documentation
about ways to "reestablish” virginity.

Inserting glass dust the night before
was successful but dangerous.

Poppy juice was also said
to be effective.

The French preferred
a more human method.

A fish bladder filled with pigeon blood
was placed inside the bride.

Blood-soaked sponges were reported
to be used in Germany,

as well as in Russia and Persia.

These people are trying to determine
whether the girl is still a virgin.

"Sit her on the opening of a wine cask.

A deflowered girl will smell,
a virgin won't,” says a book.

In another virginity test
from the 14th century

girls had to drink burnt ivy roots
dissolved in water.

If she wasn't a virgin,
she passed it immediately.

What a just world!
A girl's guilt or innocence was decided

by the size of her bladder.

For gardens infested with caterpillars

the North Italians of the Middle Ages
had a wonderful remedy:

A naked virgin...

and a monk...

had to meet before sunrise.

Why the girl had to be naked
and the monk didn't, remains a mystery.

We can't blame the holy man
for running after the girl like this.

A book entitled
"Gestriegelte Rockenphilosophie,”

published in 1709, predicts
a life of bad luck for the man

who meets a pure virgin in the morning.

The Lithuanians had an cure for fleas:

A naked virgin had to sweep the house
on the first day of Easter.

During the witch trials, judges of
the Holy Inguisition questioned

what the accused had done
with their first menstruation blood

and, if they weren't virgins,
with their defloration blood.

The quarrelsome participants of
enlightened Christianity had found out

that the menarche blood
and the defloration blood

were powerful ingredient
for making magic potions.

Confess!

Increase the torture!

In some rural areas it is still custom
to flaunt the sheets

to prove the bride's defloration
and the groom's potency.

Are you, married
-No.

Do you have girlfriend?
-Yes.

Was she a virqin?
-No.

Is a girl's innocence important to you?

No... I really don't care.

What?
-Do women still care about virginity?

I hope not. I hope women have enough
dignity to stay away from those people.

Is virginity still important tor girls?
-I'd say so.

Why?

Because it f-feels different
the first time.

Are you married?
-No, thank God.

Is virginity important today?
-No. Does it still exist?

Are you married?
-I'm Italian.

Are you married?
-Italian.

Are you married?
-Impossible...

Would you want your daughter
to marry as a virgin?

No, she should gain experience.

My first love was only 16.
Oh, I hope my daughter's still a virgin!

My dad's more liberal than my mom.

My folks are liberal too. As long as
they don't know what's going on.

And what is going on? Come on, tell me.

I'll show you sometime.
-Can't wait!

Want to come upstairs?
-Why not, now that we're here.

Great. I got some new records,
cool stuff. And my mom's not home.

She's at the doctor's
tor a couple of hours.

So I can turn up the volume.

Georg, I can't stay for very long.

Come on...

Thanks.

Nice place.

Tell me...

Tell me...

Have you been with a girl and all?
-Sure.

With more than one?
-Sure.

Just petting or more?
-More.

Jesus...

Is there a bathroom here?
-No, we don't wash... I'll show you.

I'll be right back.
See you!

Georg, why don't you turn it up a bit?

Let it ring...

can't...

I just can't.

It's not working.

Hi, Christine.
-Hi, Mr. Silinann.

Nobody home?

I saw your father on the Ku'damm.
He was being interviewed by a reporter.

Maybe we'll see him on TV.

You don't have a key?
-No.

Come on in.

I can't let you wait
on the mat like a dog.

Thank you.

Make yourself at home.
What would you like?

Whiskey?

Port?

Vodka? Cognac?
No, wait!

We'll have champagne!

One sec.

Cheers.

Is that a play you're in?
-No, but I enjoy acting it out.

May I have a look?

Like it?

Is that art too?

It depends.

My parents always say
I'm too young for love.

You're never too young for happiness.

You're a pretty girl.

We've known each other for five years.
That's when I moved in.

You're still a virqin, riqht?
Right!

What's that supposed to be?
-Oh, you'll see, my little bird.

I can't wait.

And here's the magic trick.

Cheers.

I tell you, you must kidnap her.

But that'll cost you.

Oh, of course!
Till tonight.

Come!

Let's go!

This fiery lover will of course say
that the kidnapped girl was no virgin,

but a disreputable person with whom
any Roman could have sex unpunished.

If the family can prove that she was
a virgin, the couple has broken the law.

But it is not in the father's interest
to have her punished.

So they settle the matter

with the means ot communication
that, to this day, solves all disputes.

Hence the expression,
"Sold down the river.”

This custom of forcing a virgin into
marriage through kidnapping and rape

is still alive in Sicily.

Another form of defloration aimed at
begging for the blessings of the gods.

But here our old friend isn't called
"phallus,” but "mutunus tutunus.”

It was crucial to ensure that the
defloration here was complete.

Only then was it going to be
a fruitful and blissful marriage.

Nothing indicates any
connection between the Homans

and the natives of North America.

Still, we find the same tradition here.

Medicine men on some lndian islands
prepared women for self defloration

by burning herbs.
The smoke enveloping the girl's genitals

made her feel an urgent desire
for love-making.

As the biting smoke makes the girl
fall slowly into a state of ecstasy,

her tribe dances to bring
on the blessings of the gods.

This ritual is not
pertormed for every girl

who becomes a woman
through self-defloration.

but only for daughters of families
holding high rank within the tribe.

Only after this ceremony is the girl
integrated into the community.

She then awaits the man
her family chose,

whereby her feelings and preferences
are not taken into account.

Important for the selection
of a spouse are: his tribal ranking.

the resulting family ties,

and the price
his family is able to pay.

She has now
crossed the threshold

from childhood to womanhood.

Now the time has come tor Arg-Pan,
the god ot fertility.

The medicine men make final preparations.

From Cambodia, Christian missionaries
of earlier centuries reported

that the groom's family
accompanied the couple to to priest,

who alone could break the taboo,
for he was stronger than the demons.

The bride was thus protected,
but also at the mercy of the priest.

Even though various cultures influence
human development in different ways,

there are still commonalities
in sexual development

that exist in every known culture.

When regarding varying educational
methods in different societies

we realize that there are commonalities
every culture has to reckon with.

After defloration by the chief
the girl awaits the chosen one.

Back to the middle ages,

"The maid pays a ransom for her wedding
night: a bucket as big as her butt,”

which was complicated if the estate
belonged to the church.

The monks demanded the same
as the feudal lords,

of course waiving their
right to the first night.

Some are said to have claimed it anyway,
but, sorrily, there isn't any proof.

Cheating was not allowed. The bucket
had to be "just as big as her butt."

Not too big and not too small.

Let's return to our topic:
the right to the first night.

May I enter, please?
I have a request.

It's time tor my daughter to get married.

I've chosen Heinrich Zimmermann.
-Again?

What's going on?
We just had a wedding last week’

I'm not the youngest anymore.

So be it.

Then Zimmermann shall take her.

No, sir, not without your blessings.

Come, stand up.

Is she pretty?
- Yes.

You must see her, sir. A delicate child,
long lashes, hair like silk, dark eyes.

A soft and round body.

So this is the rascal he chose for you.
-Yes, sir.

And you love him?
-Yes, sir.

He hasn't taken what is mine, has he?
-No, sir.

She's too well brought up to disregard
the rules of the church.

You can go now.
Go on.

Not you, my child.

Heaven will redeem your goodness.
- Yes, yes... Go have a jug of wine.

Now go on!
The Lord will reward you.

Our lord is very gracious.
He gave Anna damask and fine lace.

And Margarete a golden necklace.

Because he was satisfied with her.

Wait, you,must earn it first, my child.

Oh, dear God!

Satan is with you? You're a witch!
You bewitched me!

No girl wanted to be called a witch.

The old question arises:
What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Did female seduction ruin men first?

Or did women invent it as a
weapon against oppression?

Her reward was surely not easily gained.

Thus the church allowed
these not so virginal virgins

to wear the myrtle-wreath,
a sign ot virginity, at their weddings.

And he also got what he deserved...

Nine out of ten historical documents
on this subject were written by men.

Much has been told about female virgin
cults, but little about male virginity.

However,
many prehistoric cultures worldwide

had cults surrounding male virginjty.

As the girl gained maturity
through defloration.

the boy was ritually circumcised
to appease the demons.

It was a custom in many places
betore Moses made circumcision a law.

Some Mato Grosso tribes had
other reasons to have customs

that protected the boys'
penises before puberty.

Mainly in those tribes
where women ruled.

The legend of the Amazons developed
from the fact that in the Amazon region

women had absolute power
and men were lust objects,

only needed for reproduction.

Still today young men are protected
and fattened until the age of 17

Surely any civilized male would like to
trade places with this Amazon boy.

When he reaches sexual maturity,
the leader bestows manhood upon him

and performs the circumcision ritual,

using sharp metal blades on her teeth.

She has done this many times before and
surely won't hurt the boy.

After all, the penis is very valuable
for these women.

He is now officially a man.

If a boy becomes a man
in an "unofficial" way,

he is cast from the tribe and chased
down to the great Amazon river.

If he tried to return to his tribe,
he would be horribally punished.

The ethics of Islam are based on Judaism
and Christianity and they differ little.

They can only be acknowledged
in comparison with the social norms

of heathen Arab culture.

Moderation and severity

were invoked by
the prohibition of wine and gambling.

Nonetheless Islam rejecsts asceticism,

supports certain pleasures of life,
and detests celibacy .

Polygamy, though, is limited
to four lawful wives.

Over time this rule was abandoned in
some areas, and harems came into being,

less due to a loosening of morals

than to the influence of other cultures
that converted to Islam.

In parts of Arabia
relative of the groom

examined the bride before her wedding.

In some areas of Central America
girls of noble descent

deflowered themselves in front of
laudable warriors and chiefs.

That's it for today.
Just one more thing.

When we develop system or theories,

they should never change
our convictions.

The cult of virginity

is long forgotten
in modern societies.

How many modern societies are there?

And how many modern thinking people?

Think about it.

Good-bye.

Is the experience of defloration
still valued?

It was disappointing.
-Nice guy, it was fun.

It had to happen sometime.

Did you feel guilty?
-No, it was just unpleasant.

Are you ashamed you're not a virgin?
-No.

What an indiscrete question!

Translation: Tommy Mang/Betty Huffman
Holland Subtitling