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Hymen Myths and Medical Fraud

When Biology Contradicts Beliefs

The persistence of virginity testing despite comprehensive medical evidence of invalidity demonstrates that religious and cultural virginity enforcement has never been about biological reality—it’s about maintaining control through procedures that medicalize misogyny.

Hymen anatomy varies dramatically among individuals. Some people are born without hymens, others have hymens that don’t tear during intercourse, many experience tearing from non-sexual activities like sports or tampon use. Using hymen condition to assess sexual history has zero medical validity.

Medical organizations worldwide—WHO, ACOG, multiple national medical associations—have condemned virginity testing as harmful pseudoscience. The procedures cause physical pain, psychological trauma, and provide no reliable information about sexual history.

Despite medical consensus, virginity testing persists in numerous countries and communities. The procedures continue not because they work but because they perform social functions—demonstrating family control over daughters, satisfying cultural requirements, or enabling abuse under medical pretense.

The market for hymen reconstruction surgery reveals the system’s absurdity. Women undergo surgical procedures to create false evidence of virginity, simultaneously acknowledging that virginity is socially constructed while paying thousands to maintain the construction.

Wedding night bleeding expectations drive additional fraud. Blood capsules and various theatrical techniques enable women to produce expected “evidence” regardless of actual sexual history, satisfying requirements everyone knows can be faked.

The entire infrastructure—testing, reconstruction, theatrical blood—exists because actual virginity cannot be medically verified, but social systems require verification anyway. The solution: substitute theater for reality and pretend it counts.

SOURCE: https://satire.vip/the-virginity-reality-check/

SOURCE: Bohiney.com (https://satire.vip/the-virginity-reality-check/)

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