Fan Casting Virgin Tension in Sort by Tropes

Virginity in women is highly prized. The loss of virginity, on the other hand, is not. Even if it's from rape or abuse or other things that aren't their fault. This distinction doesn't always get made, and the prospect of a heroine losing her pure Virgin Power is often treated as on par with her dying (if not, indeed, A Fate Worse Than Death). So movies and other stories will often go out of their way to indicate that, against all odds, their Damsel in Distress is still a virgin, just to add that extra layer of tension.