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VANCOUVER — Everything was at stake — her future marriage, her place in her conservative community, her life.
Women Getting Controversial Surgery To Mimic Virginity
Seeded on Tue Jul 6, 2010 9:07 AM EDT
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The 23-year-old Muslim woman from the Middle East desperately wanted to appear to be a virgin.
She went to Dr. "Sam" with an unusual request. She wanted a hymenoplasty — surgical restoration of the hymen, often done specifically for cosmetic reasons to mimic virginity.
"It’s a surgery for fooling a person, a lie that the woman is still a virgin, even though she had had sex," said Dr. Faizal Sahukhan, a Burnaby, B.C.-based sex therapist.
He has counselled several South Asian women against seeking the procedure.
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#1 - Tue Jul 6, 2010 9:07 AM EDTWell, when you consider that women can be stoned to death for admitting to adultery after 99 lash strokes, and that woman need 4 males to testify for her that non-consensual sex happened, I think I'd have the surgery to ensure that I didn't die on my wedding night.
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#2 - Tue Jul 6, 2010 10:59 AM EDTBarbaric practice continues all over the Muslim world in spite of the best attempts to stop it. If we could somehow get the virginity thing to apply to men who had their private parts chopped off if they had sex before their wedding night, we could stop this devastatingly common practice.
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