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Virginity is not in the beginning; it is in the end. Children are not virgin. They are just waiting to be violated.
I have heard:
"Three children were sitting on the steps of a home, and one child was playing with toy motorcars, another was playing with a spaceship, and the third was reading a glossy playboy-type magazine. A man passed. He looked at the three children. He asked the first, 'What would you like to become in your life?'
The first said, 'Of course, I would like to compete in car races. I want to become the greatest driver in the world.'
The second said, 'I want to become an astronaut.'
And he asked the third, 'What do you want to become?'
He looked at the man and said, 'Grown up, sir. Grown up.'
Children are not virgin. They are just waiting to become grown up. In fact they are worried why it is taking so long, why it is being delayed.
I was reading the autobiography of a poet, and when he was a child, he must have been about eleven, he came under the influence of a christian missionary. He became very impressed by the christian doctrine that soon the world is going to end and Jesus will come, the second coming. But he became very much afraid. He started praying, 'God, wait a little. Let my virginity be broken, violated. Wait a little! -- just two or three years more. Don't finish the world so soon!'
Children are not virgin. In fact, children are not innocent -- they just look it. They are getting ready to be corrupted. They are getting ready to move in the world.
Real innocence comes only in the end. It is a flowering; it is not a seed. It is not the beginning; it is the end.
If love is fulfilled, brahmacharya arises. If you have lived totally in anger, compassion comes. If you have moved in life, suddenly you have a transcending experience. But the old religions, all of them have created a divided mind, a guilty mind, a crazy mind -- split.
"Once it happened, a governor came to visit a madhouse. He was inspecting the new state-supported psychiatric hospital and on being taken through the isolation wards was struck by the fact that in one cell there was sitting a man
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