I'm not so sure about being put bang to rights, as you say.
The fact that the word for 'young woman' and 'virgin' are the same points to them being the same thing in that culture, e.g. a young woman would be a virgin until she became an older woman and married.

For example, the Chinese don't have separate words for 'drawing' and 'writing'. To them, they're the same thing.
(Mr._Pickles, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 14:48, Reply)