[Mrs. Don-o]

I think that originally, "virgin" simply meant "maiden" in the sense of "unmarried woman." It indicated her title or status, maiden, as contrasted to matron, widow, abbess, foundress, queen, etc.

In that sense, you couldn' tcall a male saint a "virgin" any more than you could call him a "matron."

There were certainly male saints who were famous for their devotion to chastity. St.Thomas Aquinas' brothers tried to deter him from joining the Dominicans by arranging for an attractive girl to accost him in his bedroom and seduce him. He reportedly grabbed a flaming stick out of the fireplace and brandished it at her until she was obliged to decamp. She must have been pretty aggressive. And/or he must have been pretty tempted.

[Tax-chick]

In that sense, you couldn't call a male saint a "virgin" any more than you could call him a "matron."

Good point. Are unmarried male saints listed as "celibate"? I haven't looked, and there aren't all that many unmarried, canonized, laymen.