A new
artificial virginity device has sparked controversy in Egypt where virginal brides are desired and premarital sex is severely frowned upon and considered taboo.
The device promises women that, when inserted, it will release a blood-like substance when penetrated, giving the illusion of having their cherry-popped on their wedding night. The debate that ensued boils down to this: an assault on traditional values versus the double standard against premarital sex for women.
Conservatives in Egypt are outraged at the creation of this artificial hymen. Tricking a husband into believing their wife was a virgin before him is an attack on the institution of marriage, as they see it. There also may be fear of a sexual revolution. With a quick fix device available at women's fingertips, the pressure to remain a virgin until marriage has eased. On the other side of the debate, women believe that there is a double standard placed on them when it comes to premarital sex, and that this product is the inevitable result of years of sexual repression... or lack thereof.
Premarital sex is a real issue in Egypt and in other cultures and religions as well. The idea that women can now buy their virginity back is truly a controversial topic. Before this, women were having expensive surgeries to recreate their hymens in order to remain inside societal boundaries of what is acceptable for young, unmarried women. Now, for the low price of $29.95, Egyptian women can have their cake and eat it too.
Thoughts on the artificial virginity device? Would you go that far in order to avoid the controversy and stigma surrounding premarital sex?
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Comments (67)
That's not much better than having breast implants. FFS, be honest.
weird
Hm, doesn't sound like a great idea. Women should be trying to fix the double standard that men can be promiscuous but not women, instead of submitting to it and trying to recapture virginity (hope that makes sense).
The hymen is often broken in ways besides sex. So how do they ever really know?
woah :O
Women have been using the chicken-blood method for ages. This device is nothing new and will probably not cause a revolution.
Seems kinda weird.
@purplenurple_orangezorange@xanga - They subject the women to "virginity tests" that are haphazard at best. This site gives some details about it.
there are huge double standards, i think its great that they invented something like that for women who live among men stupid enough not to realize women can be born without a hymen or have their hymens broken in other ways.. or that having a hymen makes you a virgin!
I honestly don't get it ^_^ I've never really fully understood what people meant when they talked about getting their cherry-popped. I just assumed it meant your virginity ?
Either way, it sounds nasty.
Hymens can be broken with or without a sexual encounter. It's silly to use that as a means of knowing whether a woman is a virgin or not. Also, I hate the emphasis of women having to be virgins in order to be seen as good and proper. Who gives a shit, there are other more important factors to judge people on.
I think it's so horrible that these women are so desperate to not be stigmatized and abused by their society that this had to be invented. :( Interpreting this as the women faking it or having their cake and eating it too is disingenuous. There are still parts of the world where a woman could be killed for not being a virgin.
Slut shaming these women is ridiculous. Slut shaming any woman is ridiculous.
@SamiiSaysHaii@xanga - when your hymen is broken you bleed a little (or lot for some), and this usually happens when you lose your virginity. but as others have pointed out, some people break their hymens in other ways as well. however it happens, its sometimes called having your cherry popped because of the blood.
Sounds weird. And shouldn't men know by now a lot of women tear their hymen doing activities now?
@Brittany - ohh, okay. ahaha thank you for the clarity !
Pretty much everything's already been covered. It's not a new idea, it's not a bad idea, virginity "tests" are hardly scientific.
That sounds really weird.
all i have to say is, any man whos been with a virgin and a woman whos has 1 or more sexual partners knows the differance between a woman whos never been with anyone versus one who's been broken in a time or two. so it wouldnt really work unless the mans a complete idiot.
props to whomever came up with this idea. Strange, but interesting. =]
How about we just get rid of this notion that people will stay virgins until marriage? It's really stupid. Men can lie verbally, so this is a way for women to lie and be believed. It's not much worse.
The illustrious bacchic orgies of old Egypt obviously don't have a place there now. =(
trickery!
whoever thought of this.. is pretty smart HAHAH.
but dude, 29.99?!?! for putting a little fluid like thing inside you? what the hell?
i just think its kinda weird.
wouldn't you feel guilt for lying to your husband? imean obviously you are not buying your virginity back when all you did was made artifical blood.
hahahahaaaa omggg I LOVE THIS!
go us!!! gettin sneakier and sneakier by the yearrr....the husbands deserved to be lied to for believing that in this day and age their wife is really a virgin. come on.
I mean, I can definitely see the appeal of something like this in a more sexually conservative culture. But the idealist in me is screaming this is treating a symptom to a much larger problem husbands (or people, really) across cultures need to accept the fact that the person they are marrying may or may not be a virgin and that doesn't change who they are.
(gets off soapbox.)
how cares if she isn't a virgin, not everyone bleeds when they get their cherry popped because i didn't. if its their culture or religion and these people care so much about it then they should just wait until they get married.