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Mary's knowledge of sex at the time of Mr. Pamuk
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How well informed would a woman of Mary's age and position have been in 1912/13? I just watched the Pamuk scene and he says "you can still be a virgin for your husband" . Would someone like her have understood what that meant or known about sex and her hymen and all the rest of it?
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There are many ways to stretch the hymen before having sex. Horseback riding is one of them- which would have been common for noble women to do back then, and Mary definitely partook in.
Even if the hymen was fully 'intact', blood on the wedding night is by no means guaranteed.
I highly doubt that in this era bloody sheets were expected or offered up as 'proof' of the bride's virginity on her wedding night.