Pune (Maharastra) [India] Feb 07 (ANI): Maharashtra government is set to make '
virginity tests', Eea punishable offence in the state and such cases will be dealt as sexual offences.
But some women are born without a hymen, and the membrane can also be ruptured if a girl engages in curtains sports or uses of a tampon.Women and girls are often forced to undergo
virginity tests for various reasons, including requests by parents or potential partners to establish their suitability for marriage, and sometimes even by potential employers the military, for instance to determine their eligibility.
The statement, which was issued during the World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in Rio de Janeiro, stresses that "
virginity testing" is both unscientific and a violation of human rights.
Vatican document 'Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago' published earlier this month includes a clause stating physical
virginity is not an "essential prerequisite"to consecration.
In Ikare-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State, the people of the town were gathered to celebrate the annual cultural and traditional event known as Aringinya, where
virginity, regarded as the greatest virtue of any woman, is celebrated.
This idea is reflected in the title of part 1 of Virgin Envy, "Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward," and is in keeping with one of the questions the volume explores: "what would happen to the study of
virginity if we moved the discussion away from the hymen altogether?" (5).
The new generation of the close-knit Kanjarbhat community is staging protests at weddings to end the centuries-old practice of
virginity tests.
A 20-year-old student has become the first Australian to auction her
virginity on a controversial escort website.
(AFP) DUBAI: An Egyptian woman poisoned and killed her husband after five days of marriage after he demanded she undergo a
virginity test a court has heard, according to Egyptian daily Masrawy.
A global rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch, has vehemently chastised performing
virginity tests.
AN escort website is auctioning off a young woman's
virginity so she can afford to go to university abroad.
Twenty-year-old student Ariana is auctioning off her
virginity on an escort site in order to raise money to study abroad.
It was said to reveal that the victim had recently told someone she had lost her
virginity just weeks before McLaughlin's trial.
