It’s not every day that a second-year art school project makes headlines. But in October 2013, the press got wind of one Central Saint Martins student’s plan for a new performance piece, titled Art ...

The Indonesian Army will no longer conduct "virginity tests" on female cadets, the army's chief of staff said Wednesday. The test, which the World Health Organization determined has "no scientific ...

In a world where a hook-up can be equivalent to a handshake and sex-positive influencers dominate social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking the concept of virginity still mattered to anyone. But ...

Johns Hopkins researchers need your help! The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital is conducting a survey to determine the prevalence and effects of virginity testing in ...

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 ...

Charities have seen a rise in people reaching out after experiencing virginity testing. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has released a statement in support of the government’s ...

Virginity testing is now a criminal offence in Kosovo. The practice is less common, but still goes on in private clinics and investigations of sexual abuse. Bergita Curri had not long begun work as a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- A California lawmaker wants to end so-called virginity testing on women after rapper T.I.'s controversial claim that he takes his daughter to a gynecologist every year to ...

This article situates Egyptian political protesters’ battles over the state’s “virginity testing” in the ethnographic context of cultural beliefs about the hymen and women’s moral purity, based on ...

Rasha Abdel Rahman was quietly informed on Sunday that the bid for justice she began around 13 years ago had finally yielded a result. She was one of over a hundred people who were taken by military ...