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Egypt anger over virginity faking
By Magdi Abdelhadi
BBC Arab Affairs analyst

A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.

Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.

The device is said to release liquid imitating blood, allowing a female to feign virginity on her wedding night.

There is a stigma about pre-marital sex in some conservative Arab societies.

The contraption is seen as a cheap and simple alternative to hymen repair surgery, which is carried out in secret by some clinics in the Middle East.

It is produced in China and has already become available in other parts of the Arab world.

The device is reported to be on sale in Syria for $15.

Professor Bayoumi, a scholar at the prestigious al-Azhar University, said it undermined the moral deterrent of fornication, which he described as a crime and one of the cardinal sins in Islam.

Members of parliament in Egypt have also called for banning import of the item.
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I guess they fail to realize that not all girls bleed the first time.

brunota2003 wrote:I guess they fail to realize that not all girls bleed the first time.

and that we're in the 21st century!

That's just weird. We just went over that topic in History.

brunota2003 wrote:I guess they fail to realize that not all girls bleed the first time.

Or that girls can "lose their virginity" through strenuous activities involving stretching the body. (gymnastics, cheerleading, etc.)

I agree with all the above statements, and can not believe that these poor girls have to carry such shame about a completely normal event in ones life. I mean there in no way one can prove loss of virginity without a thorough exam. As said above not all girls bleed and other activities can lead to the hymen membrane being lost.

its a crying shame that it is no longer expected that one remains a virgin until marriage

reflects poorly on society today, IMO

Derek Ortt wrote:its a crying shame that it is no longer expected that one remains a virgin until marriage

reflects poorly on society today, IMO

I agree. It makes me wonder how low has our moral standard go when you are watching a unmarried teenage on TV trying to find her child's father just because she had sex with a few different men in a short period of time...