Acknowledgements Introduction: "Our Tantalizing Double": Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adrian Spahr PART 1: TOO MUCH PAIN FOR SUCH LITTLE REWARD CHAPTER 1 - "I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Amy Burge CHAPTER 2 - Between Pleasure and Pain:The Textual Politics of the Hymen Jodi McAlister PART 2: BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD .AND MORE BLOOD CHAPTER 3 - The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga Jonathan A. Allan and Cristina Santos CHAPTER 4 - Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True Blood Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina Santos PART 3: MEN BE VIRGINS TOO: QUEERING VIRGINITY CHAPTER 5 - The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane Kevin McGuiness CHAPTER 6 - Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri Gibson Ncube PART 4: F*CK: THEY ENTRAPPED US INSOCIAL ISSUES AND POLITICS CHAPTER 7 - Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations with Indian Womanhood Asma Sayed CHAPTER 8 - The Policing of Viragos and Other "Fuckable" Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana Spahr Contributors Index.