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Maidenhead

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  • Jan 29, 2023
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32 AGOT Tyrion IV: To communicate Littlefinger as a habitual liar, Tyrion tells Catelyn that Littlefinger boasts openly of her maidenhead at court.


43 AGOT Tyrion VI: Tysha was maiden.


68 AGOT Sansa VI: Joffrey informs Sansa they're still to marry and that he'll get her with child as soon as she's flowered.


75 ACOK 2 Arya I: Yoren warns Arya she risks rape if the men find out she's a girl.


85 ACOK 12 Theon I: The daughter of the captain of the Myraham had been a maid before Theon.


91 ACOK 18 Tyrion IV: Littlefinger claims, of the Tully girls, "I had their maidenheads." 272


115 ACOK 42 Tyrion IX: "Lady Tanda's daughter had surrendered her maidenhead to half a hundred shouting men behind a tanner's shop. The gold cloaks found her wandering naked on Sowbelly Row. 600


126 ACOK 53 Sansa IV: Sansa panics when she gets her period, expecting rape by Joffrey.


142 ACOK 69 Jon VIII: "As shy as a maid on her wedding night," the big ranger said in a soft voice, "and near as fair. Sometimes a man forgets how pretty a fire can be." 942


150 ASOS 7 Sansa I: The Tyrells have been given the Maidenvault, called that "since King Baelor the Blessed had confined his sisters therein, so the sight of them might not tempt him into carnal thoughts." 79 Now, their names makes them an ideal housing for the Tyrells, as it is marginalized within the castle.


152 ASOS 9 Daenerys I:Captain Groleo "had been nervous as a maiden about carrying three dragons on his ship." 107


154 ASOS 11 Davos II: Patchface sings of "blood on the maiden's thigh" in his Red Wedding song. Edric Storm says they're playing monsters and maidens.


155 ASOS 12 Jaime II: When Brienne gives him a look of loathing and stalks off, Jaime thinks "I've had enough of feeble pieties and maiden's judgments." 158 He means her reverence toward the kingsguard and judgment of him, though never having been required to make a difficult decision.


158 ASOS 15 Catelyn II: Presumably, Robb took Jeyne's maidenhead. He might have been pressured to wed her.


159 ASOS 16 Jon II: Jon's. Tormund calls Jon a smooth cheeked maid and asks him why he resists Ygritte.


175 ASOS 32 Jaime IV: When Vargo Hoat protects Brienne from rape by his men, it's because he thinks her ransom of sapphires will be forfeit if she's no longer maiden. 418


176 ASOS 33 Tyrion IV: Somehow, everyone knows Sansa remains maiden though married. Tywin presurres Tyrion to consumate as a step towards a child and Lannister claim to Winterfell, when Robb dies. Tywin reminds Tyrion an unconsummated marriage can be set aside.


205 ASOS 62 Sansa V: Littlefinger tells Sansa Catelyn gave him her maidenhead. "I could never have had her hand. But she gave me something finer, a gift a woman can give but once." 841


212 ASOS 69 Sansa VI: When Littlefinger says he's to wed Lysa, Sansa thinks "You said it was my mother you loved. But of course Lady Catelyn was dead, so even if she had loved Petyr secretly and given him her maidenhead, it made no matter now." 929


Marillion begs Sansa for her maidenhead. Lysa presses to know if she is with child. Sansa assures she's still maiden. She says Tyrion had whores, but the word she thinks is "kind."


251 AFFC 26 Brienne V: Septon Merribald made himself walk without shoes for the rest of his days for all the maidens he deflowered as a hedge septon, when younger.


254 AFFC 29 Cersei VI: When Cersei asks Taena mMerryweather if she thinks Margaery is still a maiden,

Taena's black eyes sparkled with mischief. "When she wed Lord Renly at highgarden, I helped disrobe him for the bedding. His lordship was a well-made man and lusty. I saw the proof when we tumbled him into the wedding bed where his bride awaited him as naked as her name day, blushing prettily beneath the coverlets...Margaery may say that the marriage was never consummated, that Lord Renly had drunk too much wine at the wedding feast, but I promise you, the bit between his legs was anything but weary when last I saw it." 585


265 AFFC 40 Cersei IX: Pycelle reveals that he brews moon tea for Margaery, suggesting she is not celibate, let alone maiden.


267 AFFC 42 Alayne II: On first meeting her, Myranda Royce asks her age and if she's still maiden in quick succession.


312 ADWD 41 Tyrion IX: Tyrion asks Penny if she's a maid. She says of course and he advises she stay that way. "Stay that way. Love is madness, lust is poison. Keep your maidenhead. You'll be happier for it, and you're less likely to find yourself in some dingy brothel on the Rhoyne with a whore who looks a bit like your lost love. 580


313 ADWD 42 The Turncloak: Barbrey Dustin gave her maidenhead to Brandon Stark and they were lovers until the night he had to make their last.

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