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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be careful spelling out BS here... some little rat freeper posts a JR quote about swearing and then reports you. 10 minutes later your post is deleted...
Yes.... for saying bullshit... smmfh...
Yup
I’m okay if she’s not a virgin!
No, really!
I resemble your remark! LOL.
what if a woman simply wants the surgery? Isn’t it her body her choice? Seems like a random thing to ban.
With vaccine mandates, it appears we are drifting away from that concept.
Wokeness and political correctness is a pandemic spreading faster than Covid.
Completely stupid. Whether the virgin was considered a dangerous stranger by tribes or holy and liable to go to God for others, virginity has always been at the crux of rites of initiations.
CNn is “just” preaching communist equity schizophrenia again, confusing equity with schizophrenic de-differentiation.
What does noted purity expert Buster Hymen have to say about this?
Every time a leftist starts to prattle it sounds like Robert Downey Jr. in Back to School: "Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war"
Lots of text, dancing around one word that they are not allowed to mention:
Islam.
Muslim men WANT this legislation.
In Islam, a reconstructed hymen is FRAUD.
The hymen “does not exist”, but will still bleed when broken.
M’kay??
It won’t be long before they claim the P & V don’t really exist either.
Any discussion of the subject without a concurrent discussion of pregnancies, parenthood, and the raising of children, is absurd.
What a a great description of Islam without saying Islam.
FIFY
No hymen, no diamond.
But a guy wants to chop off his peepee? Get out the chainsaw!
So is CNN getting down on Islam? Or just some other religion that frowns on promiscuity.
I can’t even bear to read the post because I have not yet had my tea and the stupid will just give me a major migraine.
Hi.
In Richmond, VA there is a GM dealership named Buster Hyman.
Just saying.
5.56mm
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