Institutions grounded in sense and equality would never use ghastly procedure.

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Early this year, courts in Pakistan pushed to outlaw virginity tests. Activists hope the country will join the growing list of nations abolishing the invasive practice. However, the U.S. is still ...

Lawmakers in California are moving to ban what many feel is an archaic and demeaning practice: virginity testing. If performed by a doctor the procedure is currently allowed, but a proposed bill would ...

From behind the privacy curtain, a doctor is telling Sophia* to take off her knickers and trousers. She obliges while taking great shaking sobs. Trembling, she lies down and opens her legs. The doctor ...

New York state lawmakers are considering banning doctors from performing "virginity tests" after rapper T.I. revealed that he takes his daughter to the gynecologist every year to "check her hymen," ...