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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The comments, as soon as they made the rounds, were met with swift condemnation: Rapper T.I. says he takes his daughter to the gynecologist after each birthday to determine if she's a virgin.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Iranian artist sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for her satirical cartoons critical of the Iranian government was forced to repeatedly undergo virginity and pregnancy tests last ...