Monday, April 30, 2007
Mommy, what's Hymenoplasty? Oh brother. Can men get this?
Anyway...what people do with their own bodies is their own business, but the concern is that this is tied to a wish to avoid the honor killings that could come from a lack of surgery, and the creep of a culture that calls for such things.
Muslim women in France regain virginity in clinics
She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again.
"I'm glad I had it done," said the woman, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. "I wanted to reconstruct part of my life, to reconstruct myself so that I could feel better about myself."
This 30-minute outpatient procedure, called "hymenoplasty" and costing between 1,500 and 3,000 euros ($2,000-$4,000), is increasingly popular among young women of North African descent in France.
No exact figures exist to say how many such operations are done, but the woman's surgeon says he gets three to five queries and performs one to three hymenoplasties each week. Demand has been rising for the past three or four years...
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stop trying to paint this as a muslim thing as many other women do this.
Sure, many other women do this.
After all, look at all those Buddhist and Christian and Jewish women just lining up and waiting their turn. Thousands of them. Millions of them. Uh huh.
"hymenoplasty", it's like buying a used car that smells like a new car.
I had second thoughts...
"hymenoplasty", it's like making a used car smell like a new car.
That's better. :-)
Yeah Eddie,
That's really amusing. A woman who's had sex is "used." Tell me, so a man who's had sex isn't?
Jamal...It's on the headline of the Reuters article. Sol's right, you are wrong.
"hymenoplasty" is like the Seinfeld "regifting".