Reply #42: Women Come to the US for the Surgery

[Lady President]

I first heard about this surgery several years ago, and the women who had it came to the US from middle eastern countries. The one story I remember clearly featured a young woman who had been raped by a town elder. Her aunts took her to the US for a supposedly well chaperoned vacation. The aunts (brave souls) arranged for the surgery to be performed while in NYC. The young woman was very much in love, but hadn't started planning a wedding because she knew when it was discovered she wasn't a virgin she would be cast out of her community. The cultural rule requiring purity extends to all classes. Wealthy women have received this surgery in the US and Europe for who knows how long.

It's easy for me to imagine women in the US being in danger if their virginity couldn't be proved. Not to sound crude, but I can see some redneck yahoo beating his new wife if she wasn't pure enough for his taste. It's obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of women's anatomy that the hymen rarely has any bearing on virginity, but until this is backward phase in our history is over, I want this available to keep women safe.

Wow, I'm really cynical tonight...