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Article: HEALTH: RESTORING VIRGINITY BECOMES RISKY BUSINESS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- May 27, 2005
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Sandy Kobrin for WOMENSENEWS
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-27-2005
LOS ANGELES, May 26, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Some doctors perform
these specialized surgeries on women late at night when there's no
one else in the waiting room.
The patients are most often women of Middle Eastern descent,
some with origins from countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.
They frequently give false names and pay in cash. They arrive
alone, faces hidden, under elaborate hats, wigs, scarves and
sunglasses and, afraid, say doctors.
They are there for hymenoplasties, or the repair of hymens,
which, when intact, are widely recognized as evidence of virginity.
The surgeries could save their lives, noted the ...