Virginity Restoration

(UK) It appears that the British taxpayer is funding virginity restoration operations via the National Health Service. Evidently, Muslim women seeking husbands must be virginal so the repair surgery has become quite popular.

Women are being given controversial "virginity repair" operations on the NHS, it emerged last night.

Taxpayers funded 24 hymen replacement operations between 2005 and 2006, official figures revealed.

According to one gynecologist, Dr. Magdy Hend, "In some cultures they like to see that the women will bleed on the wedding night. If the wife or bride is not a virgin, it is a big shame on the family." Consequently, re-virginizing (virginating?) is big business.

The operation can involve suturing of a tear in the hymen, such as might be caused by sexual assault, to help healing.

But it can also be conducted as a purely cosmetic procedure. A membrane is constructed, sometimes including a capsule of an artificial blood-like substance.

This operation is intended to be performed within a few days before an intended marriage.

Opposition to taxpayer funding of the procedure has surfaced with one member of Parliament, Ann Cryer, expressing horror and calling the procedure a form of abuse.

Cryer also stated, "We have to also ask whether our National Health Service should be providing this sort of facility. I don't think it should be available on the NHS."

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