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The Dilemma of 'Virginity' Restoration

Jul 13, 2008
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Dr. Marc Abecassis, who does two to four hymen restorations a week, speaks with a patient in Paris, France. Ed Alcock / The New York Times Once lost, virginity can never be replaced — but modern medicine now offers women a near-perfect physical simulation of their lost innocence. Hymenoplasty, the surgical reconstruction of the hymen broken during a women's first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who've never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding night had not been their first sexual experience. Hymenoplasty has... [read full story]                    

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