In Europe, Debate over Islam and Virginity

[kerewin21 2]

All I can say is, WOW.

PARIS — The operation in the private clinic off the Champs-Élysées involved one semicircular cut, 10 dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900.

But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent from Montpellier, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity.

Like an increasing number of Muslim women in Europe, she had a hymenoplasty, a restoration of her hymen, the vaginal membrane that normally breaks in the first act of intercourse.

“In my culture, not to be a virgin is to be dirt,” said the student, perched on a hospital bed as she awaited surgery on Thursday. “Right now, virginity is more important to me than life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/eu...&ei=5087%0A

[Henia 11]

We had already a thread on this ... about hymenoplasty and revirginization. But it got moved to Off Topic Kerewin!

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

We had already a thread on this ... about hymenoplasty and revirginization. But it got moved to Off Topic Kerewin!

this is take 2

[kerewin21 2]

sorry missed it! my bad

[rclouse 0]

To all virgins: thanks for nothing!