More Than An Absence

In itself, virginity may mean little.  Some of the worst people any of us know could be virginal.  To make sense, or to acquire a value, it has to be more than the absence of something.  It should stand for or with something else, and maybe that is poverty.  Not a poverty that is only another negative virtue, a denial.  Rather it should be a poverty that gives and shares, an openness to others and an offering of the fullness of what we have.