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Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Virginity Industry

I could be on overload lately. I no longer know how to comment on certain stories that I read.

What I can say is this, like you, I read through the news. When I stumble across a story or article that seems particularly poignant in some way, I post it on this blog. Obviously I can only point out so many stories or articles. I have time constraints and a real life as well.

We all love women, so this one seems terribly sad. I think sexual freedom is a human right. These Arab women are going to doctors to become surgical virgins in order to essentially spare their internal and external anguish over having had sex out of marriage. And it gets worse, they could be sparing their lives.

We say garbage. You can't handle the reality that your wife had sex with someone other than you - grow up.

BBC: The virginity industry
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.

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