(UK) MPs urged to ban 'virginity repair' surgery as well as virginity testing

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

MPs urged to ban ‘virginity repair’ surgery as well as virginity testing

Exclusive: abusive practice should also be outlawed in health bill to protect women, say gynaecologists

Hannah Summers
Sat 14 Aug 2021 18.03 BST

The government’s pledge to outlaw virginity testing will be undermined unless fake surgery touted as “virginity repair” is also banned, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has warned.

Last month ministers committed to criminalising the invasive and unscientific “tests” offered by some private clinics to determine whether someone is a virgin through an examination to see if the hymen is intact.

However, there are no plans to ban a procedure the same doctors claim can “restore virginity” by constructing a layer of skin at the entrance to the vagina to create the illusion of an unbroken hymen.

Typically girls and women are forced into the surgery known as “hymenoplasty” by their relatives, who want to present them as a “pure newborn virgin” who will bleed on their wedding night.

In 2020, an investigation by the Sunday Times identified 22 private clinics across the UK charging up to £3,000 for the procedure, which is performed under local anaesthetic. During the course of a year, about 9,000 people in the UK had searched Google for “hymenoplasty” and related terms, it found.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/14/mps-urged-to-ban-virginity-repair-surgery-as-well-as-virginity-testing

[niyad]

1. Dear Goddess, is this kind of patriarchal BS still going on?? Virginity

tests?? Virginity repair?? What century is this?

Thank you so much for sharing this appalling information. Clearly, GB is not nearly as advanced as one might have thought.

[keithbvadu2]

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