BAGHDAD
— Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they
were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an
institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer told AFP.Remaining a virgin until marriage can be an issue of life or death for women in the Middle East, where those who are seen as having dishonored the family by having premarital sex are sometimes killed by male relatives.
An average of several virginity tests are performed per day at the Medical Legal Institute (MLI) in Baghdad, in a small windowless room with blue-tiled walls and a black table with leg stirrups at one end.
Other equipment includes a white scope on a wheeled stand and a bright white light, also on wheels, near the end of the table..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/commentary/item/1011-iraqi-women-face-court-ordered-virginity-tests
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