OB/GYN Dr. Thais Aliabadi joins The Doctors to discuss hymenoplasty, which is a procedure to repair the hymen, the membrane which partially covers the opening to the vagina. Dr. Aliabadi shares it’s ...

On the Feb. 4, episode of The Receipts Podcast, Tolly T and Audrey delved into the story of a listener whose sister underwent hymen reconstruction surgery to fake being a virgin to marry her ...

Typical hymen repair surgery involves stitching the remnants of a torn hymen together and inserting a gelatin capsule that contains a blood-mimicking substance. After the hymen has been surgically ...

After years of campaigning from activist groups, hymenoplasty surgery (also referred to as 'virginity repair' surgery) and virginity testing is finally set to be banned in the UK. Previously, the UN ...

You know how, growing up, your mum was always like, “Don’t have sex until you get married or else your husband will throw you in the garbage and you’ll die a dirty, trash-covered slut”? But then the ...

This article originally appeared on Broadly. “I feel bad for these women. They’re feeling so much pressure from their male family members, and they’re afraid to be rejected—or even worse, become ...

Her doctor later revealed she had a “septate hymen,” which has fibrous bandsthat create several openings but still need to be removed. While the surgery was awkward to talk about with her parents, ...

The government is planning on banning a cosmetic surgery called hymenoplasty across the UK. It attempts to recreate a woman's hymen, which in some cultures is linked to virginity, and has been ...

Sarah Jones-Green will undergo surgery to repair her microperforate hymen after she “waited such a long time” to have sex Sarah Jones-Green / SWNS Sarah Jones-Green waited until her wedding night to ...

There are so many myths attached to the hymen – the thin membrane that surrounds the vaginal opening – that sometimes it's difficult to sort fact from fiction. If you believed them all, you'd think it ...