Early this year, courts in Pakistan pushed to outlaw virginity tests. Activists hope the country will join the growing list of nations abolishing the invasive practice. However, the U.S. is still ...

From behind the privacy curtain, a doctor is telling Sophia* to take off her knickers and trousers. She obliges while taking great shaking sobs. Trembling, she lies down and opens her legs. The doctor ...

There is no exam to verify virginity, medical experts say, and the attempt violates a woman’s rights. By Roni Caryn Rabin The rapper and actor T.I. prompted widespread outrage after revealing on a ...

Lawmakers in California are moving to ban what many feel is an archaic and demeaning practice: virginity testing. If performed by a doctor the procedure is currently allowed, but a proposed bill would ...

Women in the army have been subjected for decades to a procedure that has been condemned as pseudoscientific and a violation of human rights. By Daniel Victor Muktita Suhartono and Christine Hauser ...

In November, T.I. sparked controversy and general disgust when he casually admitted during a podcast interview to escorting his teenaged daughter to a gynecologist every year (he later claimed he was ...