Virginity Restoration Surgery

[babylonsister]

http://bicsplace.blogspot.com/2010/04/virginity-in-arab-culture.html

Virginity Restoration Surgery


In the end, it's all about control.

Arab writer and social commentator Sana Al Khayat on the subject of forced female virginity prior to marriage: "If she's been with other men, then she has experience. Having experience makes women stronger."

Here's a brief excerpt from a thought-provoking piece by Najlaa Abou Mehri and Linda Sills published by the BBC. Click on the link at the bottom to read the whole thing.

Young Arab women wait in an upmarket medical clinic for an operation that will not only change their lives, but quite possibly save it. Yet the operation is a matter of choice and not necessity. It costs about 2,000 euros (£1,700) and carries very little risk.

The clinic is not in Dubai or Cairo, but in Paris. And the surgery they are waiting for is to restore their virginity.

Whether in Asia or the Arab world, an unknown number of women face an agonising problem having broken a deep taboo. They've had sex outside marriage and if found out, risk being ostracised by their communities, or even murdered.

Now more and more of them are undergoing surgery to re-connect their hymens and hide any sign of past sexual activity. They want to ensure that blood is spilled on their wedding night sheets.

The social pressure is so great that some women have even taken their own lives.

more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8641099.stm

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Coming soon to an abstinence only program near you. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. "What a fabulous Republicon Family Values idea!" - Ted Haggard (R - Rev.)

[BlueIris]

2. Stories like these make me too sad to even leave comments a lot of the time.

Mostly because of the profound ignorance about women, biology, sexuality and meaningful relationships displayed in discussions of the topic.

[ensho]

12. kick

nt

[liberal N proud]

3. Unbelievable

[msedano]

4. Sacred Games plot

Vikram Chandra's large novel uses restored virginity as a plot device. A big time Mumbai criminal is suckered by his long-time pimp and gal pal into thinking he's the first with a movie actress. All that ecstasy blows up in his face when time comes to pay the piper.

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2007/06/sacred-games-revisited-one-bit.html

A superbly done thriller filled with local color. Well worth finding this 2007 title.

mvs

[harry_pothead]

6. And these same clerics and priests dare to tell Westerners that we objectify our women.

[MadHound]

7. What this article doesn't mention is that this surgery started out in the US about 10 years ago

Vain American women having this surgery to please the one they were marrying, or to liven up their sex life or whatever.

This isn't simply a Middle Eastern, Islamic thing, it is everywhere.

[blogslut]

10. I think you're mistaking

Hymen reconstruction with vaginal restoration.

[MadHound]

14. Umm, that is what this article is talking about,

Hymen reconstruction.

"Now more and more of them are undergoing surgery to re-connect their hymens and hide any sign of past sexual activity."

Started in the US, and is now moving around the world. Sad, truly sad.

[blogslut]

15. No

Vaginal rejuvenation involves giving a "facelift" to the Labial folds. Hymen reconstruction is a centuries-old procedure.

[Historic NY]

8. Interesting putting the Genie back in the bottle so to speak.

[lunatica]

9. Fuck!

Oops! I meant to say Darn! Mustn't used the the big bad 'F' word! :sarcasm:

[Captain Hilts]

11. James Brown had it right: It's a man's man's world. nt

[ensho]

13. true but we women won't give up until it isn't only a man's world

nt