Word: hymen
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...feedback on whether they should get nipped and tucked down there. Welcome to the strange new world of female genital cosmetic surgery, where body insecurity issues are fueling a small but growing Western market for such procedures as labiaplasty, clitoral un-hooding, G-spot augmentation and hymen reconstruction, a.k.a. "revirginization...
Once lost, virginity can never be replaced - but modern medicine now offers women a near-perfect physical simulation of their lost innocence. Hymenoplasty, the surgical reconstruction of the hymen broken during a women's first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who've never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding...
...America, but sites off the radar," she says. The result is Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title, the subjects are hidden and unfamiliar--a Palestinian woman undergoing hymen reconstruction, nuclear waste, the Abstract Expressionist art gallery at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters. The images alone may seem merely artful, but coupled with Simon's toneless captions, they fast become haunting. "The text anchors the images with cruelly defining weight," she says...
...following year, in the wake of an infamous suggestion that innate differences may hinder women in science and math careers, the beleaguered Summers launched the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering with current University President Drew G. Faust and Provost Steven E. Hymen...
...leaving funny messages on their answering machines. Chmura also knew at least one person among the partyers: the alleged victim had baby-sat at his home. His attorney points out that no DNA evidence has been discovered implicating Chmura and that a clinic exam showed that the accuser's hymen was intact. But that exam, according to court papers, also indicated evidence "consistent with some object being forcibly inserted" in her genital area...