Northern Ireland is set to follow plans announced in the rest of the UK to ban a cosmetic surgery called hymenoplasty. It attempts to recreate a woman's hymen, which in some cultures is linked to ...

Yasmine confides in me that she is having a hymenoplasty, a short procedure that promises to reconstruct her virginity surgically. We claim to live in a modern society... but there's not much ...

“They said I was kicking them”. Despite the hymen repair surgery, also known as a hymenoplasty, Naz didn’t bleed on her wedding night. When she admitted to her in-laws that she had the ...

Legislation will also be introduced “at the earliest opportunity” to ban hymenoplasty – a procedure undertaken to reconstruct a hymen – in a further drive to prevent violence against women ...