Posted on 01/27/2022 10:43:28 PM PST by Trillian
On Monday, the British government moved to make hymenoplasty, or "virginity repair" surgery -- with or without consent -- illegal.
The move, a further amendment to the Health and Care Bill, comes hot on the heels of another change to the bill introduced in November 2021 and intended to make "virginity testing" in England and Wales a criminal offense. Both virginity testing and virginity surgery are prevalent in conservative cultures, and were described by Dr. Edward Morris, president of the UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, as being "inextricably linked forms of violence against women and girls." Given the harms described by victims of both practices, these UK legislative changes are welcome, but if anything, they should be seen as a beginning and not an end. It is not just testing and repair that is harmful. The very concept of "virginity" is. And it's one societal construct that continues to have extraordinary power in so-called conservative and liberal cultures alike. While not universally the case, in a gender-binary, heteronormative world in which a girl's value is intrinsically less than that of a boy, her virginity becomes a commodity she trades -- or that is traded for her -- in exchange for better societal prospects. Most obviously, this means improving the chances of a "good marriage," but not exclusively. Virginity has also, for example, been a condition for academic progression, as with the ill-conceived proposal for "maiden bursaries" in South Africa: a scheme that offered university scholarships to young women on the condition they remained virgins. The hymen -- and its structural integrity -- is the cornerstone of purity cultures, yet as Irish journalist Lynn Enright explains in an extract from her book Vagina: A Re-Education, "it's pretty obvious that there is a disconnect between the imagined hymen and the
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Still not interested in knowing a women who has a sexuality history that can fill a large book.
Is this against the Muslims or FOR the pedophiles?
Speak for yourself Eliza.
“Jane, you ignorant slut.”
35 year-old career women who trotted the globe and so on: We’re sick of 18-24 year old men! Where have all of the older, established, good guys gone?
Society: They don’t want you!
Great Britain: Maybe we can help a little with this by getting the ball rolling to change things.
Bullshit hymens don’t exist and some are so thick they have to be remedied medically.
What a crock of woke...
“Only women bleed…”
/AC
It seems like Trufh is under attack around the world.
“Be the first to know” is a myth and CNN’s a construct. It’s time to let both go.
The “conservative cultures” they don’t specify because that would mean only “Muslim.”
The author’s brain is the myth
Ask Sylvia Plath.
This guy is a fake doctor.
But it’s still okay to surgically mutilate your genitals and breasts if you have the right mental illness.
Thank you, I’ve SEEN the light!
This should be fun. Feminazis vs Muslims. Gee, I wonder who’s going to cave in first?.....as if we didn’t all know the answer already.
What about age, if you get my drift?
No more trips to the British Isles for me! ( sarc.)
How dishonest.
“Conservative” cultures, my foot.
It’s islam, plain and simple, and they are too much cowards to say so.
Eliza Anyangwe, virgin/not a virgin?
Is defloration over rated?
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