Bogey (noun)

Definition: something that causes fear or worry

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bogey

Found in: Feminist Manifesto by Mina Loy

Quote: “The fictitious value of a woman as identified with her physical purity—is too easy to stand-by—rendering her lethargic in the acquisition of intrinsic merits of character by which she could obtain a concrete value—-therefore, the fist self-enforced law for the female sex, as a protection of the man made bogey of virtue—which is the principal instrument of her subjection, would be the unconditional surgical destruction of virginity through-out the female population at puberty—-.”

In the context in which Mina Loy uses this word, bogey means the man made “fear” which is that a woman’s worth is her virginity.

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