Status: Strange forms of deception
In
Hippo Eats Dwarf I define 'Secondary Virginity' as: "Virginity regained by abstaining from sex for a time." But apparently many Muslim women in Europe are using other means of regaining their virginity.
The Associated Press reports:
[Dr. Nathan] Wrobel is one of an unknown number of gynecologists in France who are willing to repair hymens, the membrane usually broken by the first act of sexual intercourse. He was one of the few doctors willing to talk about it. Wrobel says women come to him having convinced themselves that the procedure will somehow reverse the irreversible. "They tell me, 'I'll be a virgin again. You will make me a virgin,' which in reality is totally false. … It's a secret we share." Other doctors issue false virginity certificates or offer such tricks as spilling a vial of blood on the sheets to fool families into believing the bride has passed their purity bar.
Hymen repair struck me as a rather peculiar operation, and I wondered if it was real or just some kind of medical scam. But some quick research reveals that it is a real procedure, according to
Hanne Blank, author of
Virgin: The Untouched History:
if you're asking whether it is possible to surgically alter your hymen so that it looks like a picture in a textbook and no one would be able to tell by looking at your hymen that you'd ever had penetrative sex, the answer is that yes, some plastic surgeons will perform plastic surgery on your vaginal opening to make it appear to have a uniform, "pristine" hymen.
However, as the
Wikipedia entry about Hymens points out, the condition of a hymen is a very poor indicator of a woman's sexual history:
the hymen is a poor indicator of whether a woman has actually engaged in sexual intercourse because a normal hymen does not completely block the vaginal opening. The normal hymen is never actually "intact" since there is always an opening in it.
Comments
Actually, here is the article I was thinking of:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05349/622923.stm
"Hey, you know how I said I was a virgin? Pranked!"
Hilarious.
Hymenorraphy and hymenoplasty are both fairly common surgeries. There's a section in chapter five of my book (out in February 07) that discusses the surgeries in some detail.
One of your commenters mentioned that surgical "virginity restoration" is about 30 years old. In reality, various surgical and quasi-surgical attempts to "restore virginity" (scare quotes used for the obvious reasons) date from around the tenth century. Purely pharmaceutical methods of feigning/imitating/enhancing "virginal" characteristics go back much further, to the ancient Greeks.
But, as I say, more on all that can be found in the book, and thanks for the plug!
What makes you think it's not?
There's no accounting for taste, I guess.
Iam in egypt don't know what to do,or which clinic can do this operation.
Plz joey if u know something u must let me know