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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Typical child molesting liberals.
It’s not just Islam, the Indians also virginity test before arranged marriages. So do most African tribal areas it says as much in the article at least about Africa and specifically South Africa but reading comprehension is a lost cause on the internet. Some Latin cultures also basicly require virginity to marry up in society. Only western European and American cultures value promiscuous behavior.
Navel-gazing academia.
Other than to indicate the performance of a sex act, what purpose does a hymen serve?
Just say NORMAL, already! The new "N" word, because it triggers those who are NOT.
Protects the young vaginal canal I suppose from the “performance” athlete
Christianity too.
I know it voids the narrative but removing female sensitive tissue from the vulva is more common in primitive African animist culture than in Islam though it overlaps and does happen in. some Islamic culture
A few Christians in Easter Africa and even some Jews in Ethiopia have practiced it
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