UK : Demands to ban virgin surgery

UK: Demands to ban virgin surgery

Activists campaigning for women's rights have urged the government to ban the 'return of virginity' operation.

Many Muslim women fear that if their husbands or family members find out that they have had sex before marriage, then the family will disappear or maybe even be killed.

That is why some women resort to a medical procedure in which doctors replenish a layer of membranes on their vagina or vagina.

But it is believed that the threat posed by the ban will increase the risks posed to Muslim women, and they will do so illegally.
'Women in Fear'

Halal Tahiri, the founder of the Middle Eastern Women and Society Organization, told BBC News that a Moroccan student was hiding in London because he was told that his father had asked someone to kill him.

In 2014, a woman who is now 26 years old, who came to the UK to study, met a man and started living with them.

But when his father learned of their relationship, he was called back to Morocco and taken to a clinic and tested for virginity. Tests revealed that their veil had been removed.

She fled and returned to London, but now she is in constant fear that her father may not know where she lives.

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There are currently at least 22 private clinics in the UK that facilitate screening.

For this one-hour-long surgery, £ 3000 is gained.

Women's rights activists say such clinics are taking advantage of the fear of Muslim women who fear what will happen to them if they are not 'purified' for their honeymoon.

Many clinics explain this process on their websites, and a London gay clinic tells women who visit their website that 'some marriages are broken' when a husband discovers that his wife's veil is not worn. Is.

'Horrible tradition'

Health Secretary Matt Hinnock says he is looking for ways to end the dreadful process, but the health department has declined to comment on how the ban will be implemented.

Dr Khalid Khan, who is undergoing surgery, is a professor at the London School of Medicine and says the ban is not an "appropriate response."
The decision can be left to a woman if 'good information' is provided to the patients.