maidenhead virginity After all , what is your maidenhead compared to his life ? She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything -- her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . Raton was not so much handsome as attractive , but what chiefly made her an object of desire was the fact that she had put the price of twenty-five louis on her maidenhead .