I'm sure even Madonna never had this in mind.

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.

And increasing numbers of women are paying up to £4,000 in private clinics for the procedure apparently under pressure from future spouses or in-laws who believe they should be virgins on their wedding night.

Doctors said most patients are immigrants or British of ethnic origin.

So Muslim women are using Britain's health service to dupe their arranged husbands into believing they are virgins. And Brits are paying for this. Nice.

Suffice it to say I was no virgin when I married, but it was a choice I made (sort of). I could have just kept my damn pants on and not fucked around before getting married. And I suppose if that were still what was expected of women in my society and culture, I would have cared a little more about it.

Another option for these girls is honesty. Read the comments over at the Mail. One after the other is pointing out how these women are beginning their marriages under false pretenses.

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.

Wow.

Labels: Feminism, Islam, United Kingdom