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These include trips to (male) doctors for virginity inspections and, it is later revealed, midnight visits from their barbaric uncle.
As Jessica Valenti clarified in her book The Purity Myth, there is no "diagnostic standard for virginity".
As a result of a change in the law this spring, school officials in Turkey are no longer authorized to test girls for virginity.
To read Richardson is to enter a moral universe in which the terms "virtue" and "honesty" are used, unironically, as synonyms for virginity.
The World Health Organisation has stated that there is no place for virginity testing in modern practice, saying the commonly-used method of inserting two fingers "has no scientific validity" and can be painful and distressing.
In February, an Indonesian district on the main island of Java was forced to scrap a plan for virginity tests for high school girls in order to graduate after it sparked a huge public outcry.
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"The man hath more music than honesty and is as famous for marring of virginity as he is for fingering of organs and virginals," wrote George Abbot, the archbishop of Canterbury.
It is intriguing that modelling across all social-educational groups points to parental marital dissolution as a male risk factor for loss of virginity, but a discordant (quarrelsome) parental relationship being important for females.
As a result of transnational migration, health institutions are faced with growing demand for "restoration" of virginity.
The comely nymph Arethusa, pursued across Arcadia by the river god Alpheus, implored Artemis, goddess of virginity, for protection.
She said his conservative extended family in Morocco was requiring that a gynecologist — and family friend — there examine her for proof of virginity before the wedding.
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