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A born-again virgin (also known as a secondary virgin or renewed virgin) is a person who, after having engaged in sexual intercourse, makes some type of commitment not to be sexually active again until marriage (or some other defined point in the future or indefinitely), whether for religious, moral, practical, or other reasons.
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Usage
This term has gained some popularity among evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, who place a strong emphasis upon sexual purity and abstinence from premarital and extramarital relations.
Surgery
In the United Kingdom, 24 women underwent hymenorrhaphy between 2005 and 2006, a procedure that restores the hymen, and thus a measure of female virginity.
In Popular culture
In season 9 of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy, Dr. April Kepner, then a resident at Seattle Grace-Mercy West Hospital announces that she is "revirginizing" after having sex with fellow resident Dr. Jackson Avery. This does not last long as she has sex with him again at the end of the episode.