[...] Then there was the more extreme sect, *Our Lady of Perpetual Viriginity*, that 
contended Christ imparted immaculate conception on all that came after him and,
further, did not believe in birth.  A woman's vagina was thus doubly ostracized from 
that which can be talked about, parents rending their childrens' birth certificates 
after splashing them in holy water, fathers having to explain to their daughters 
why they were marked with a slit and either spare the girl and bid them to conceal it
or shame the child and tell them they were an abomination unto the Lord.