Isn't that phrase missleading also? I remember seeing a show about some cultures check to see if the woman is still a virgin before being made to get married. That if they find the membrane broken then she is disgraced EVEN though she never did have sex and it became broken some other way.
So I guess it could also be reversed, a woman can have sex, but the membrane was too tough to be broken, so technically she could still be a virgin (but giving birth would finally break it)
I've seen those kinds of shows too. I've also seen that there are doctors who (given that these ladies have the resources) will repair the damaged tissue by using--surrounding tissue.
However, about the reverse happening--it's not possible. The membrane would definitely break if she had sex. The scientific aspects, the way it all works, it would definitely break, there's no way it couldn't. But that kind of thing is disgusting, and no one really wants to talk about that...However, that stuff can be broken very easily, sports activities...the works, could all be cause for a possible "breakage."
I think in this case, it was in-vitro fertilization, a man's sperm and another woman's egg were fertilized seperately, and then--"in-vitroed" (heh) into her. The instruments they would use would be small (I'm not really sure how all of that works, if she would be opened up or whatever, but the instruments would be small regardless). She would have been a surrogate mother, and there would be none of her DNA whatsoever present in the child.
I do remember reading something a long time ago, where a girl was swimming with her boyfriend in the ocean...A few weeks later she started getting really sick, she showed all the signs of pregnancy (I'm not really sure how many weeks later) but insisted that she never had sex with her boyfriend. Her parents took her to a doctor, and she had even started to gain a little belly. Finally the doctor opened her up and they found an octopus....
I seriously hope this Virgin Mary doesn't like seafood.