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 ...

Hymenorrhaphy or hymenoplasty has emerged as a procedure which attempts to restore the ability of the hymen to bleed at intercourse on the wedding night, thus protecting women from violent reprisals.

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 ...

The CBI’s outrageous claim of a hymenoplasty did not stand in court. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma held that the use of the two-finger test to conduct the so-called virginity test was unconstitutional ...

When Aruna got married, her Indian tribe expected her to submit to an unscientific 'virginity test', a ritual still performed in some communities worldwide. Krishna and Aruna Indrekar refused to ...

“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 ...

The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from H to O. See also the lists from A to G and from P to Z. Some of those ...