Kaparawanan "jijieunan" cenah jadi "perdebatan", Sabab ieu nunjukkeun awewe 
nu hipokrit. Tapi ceuk nu ngadukung mah beda deui: Nyieun kasalahan dua kali 
memang salah, tapi sakapeung leuwih alus tibatan nyieun kasalahan sakali". 
Maksudna leungit kaparawanan, salah, salahna jadi dua kali ku nyieun 
"kaparawanan" ........

Nyanggakeun wartosna :

http://www.slate.com/id/2193353/

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Sex, Lies, and Virginity Restoration
The case for doctor-assisted chastity fraud.

By William Saletan
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 7:39 AM ET
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Virginity is under attack. Not real virginity, but fake virginity. The
kind you can get by hiring a doctor to restore your hymen.

If you aren't familiar with this procedure, known as hymenoplasty, you
can read up on it in Human Nature's previous reports. Its main
customer base, by most accounts, is Muslim women whose families and
fiancés expect them, erroneously, to be sexually inexperienced.
Today's New York Times quotes one doctor who says he does the
procedure two to four times a week. That's 100 to 200 women per year
in a single practice.

The latest outcry against it has erupted in France, where a court has
annulled a Muslim marriage because the bride misrepresented herself as
a virgin. Feminists, the country's justice minister, and even the
European Parliament are getting into the act. According to Tuesday's
Wall Street Journal, doctors who restore hymens are being accused of
"reinforcing a gender bias" and "misleading family members of
patients." The chief ethicist of the International Federation of
Gynecology and Obstetrics reports that "some physicians perform
hymenoplasties on minors without the parental consent the law
requires."

The objections are correct. The virginity fetishism these women endure
is sexist, hypocritical, and totally unrealistic. The pressure applied
by families and communities to enforce it is obscene. One woman
interviewed by the Times says her fiancé's family is insisting that
she go to Morocco so a doctor of their choosing can inspect her for
proof of virginity. Don't even get me started on the mental sickness
of insisting that your wife bleed on your wedding night. And to top it
off, the procedure is a sham. Restoring your hymen doesn't make you a
virgin.

You and I can sit here all day rehearsing these complaints. And some
day, God willing, the twisted culture of virginity hypocrisy will
wither away. But until it does, hypocrisy is its own best remedy. Help
these women deceive their husbands and parents. If they want
artificial hymen restoration, let them have it.

I'm no fan of most cosmetic medicine. It's a surrender to stupid
social pressures. It's superficial, unnecessary, and expensive. It
perfectly expresses our insecurity and triviality. We should use
technology to overcome tragic realities, not to alter stigmatized
appearances.

But sometimes, a stigmatized appearance can become a tragic reality.
That's the paradox of virginity fetishism. The quality of your soul
doesn't matter. If you don't have that bit of tissue between your
legs, you're garbage.

French progressives despise this fetish. "Attaching so much importance
to the hymen is regression, submission to the intolerance of the
past," protests the head of the French College of Gynecologists and
Obstetricians. But fetishism makes intolerance easier to outwit. A
technical requirement-an intact hymen-invites a technical solution.
Fool the fundamentalists. Make hymen restoration safe, cheap,
convincing, and confidential.

Doctors are already on the case. The Journal reports that Dr. Bernard
Paniel, a Paris gynecologist, has modified the original Tunisian
procedure to reduce invasiveness and coital pain and bleeding. In
fact, the blood reduction is so effective that it threatens to expose
the fraud. That's why he "provides his patients with vials of blood
that can be spilled on wedding-night bed sheets."

Let's hear it for Dr. Paniel and his fellow fraud artists. Two wrongs
don't make a right, but sometimes, they're better than one.

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