In response to rapper T.I.'s controversial admission about his daughter's "virginity tests," New York lawmakers introduce the first U.S. legislation to ban the practice.
When Cassandra Corrado, 27, remembers lying back on a medical examination table with her feet in stirrups and legs wide open for a pelvic exam with her family doctor at the age of 15, she can still recall how vulnerable and uncomfortable she felt. But what she says “haunts” her about one particular exam is when the physician oversaw a “hymen check” to — according to him— confirm that she was still a virgin.
A ‘Virginity Exam’ does not existFor years, doctors and clinicians have been performing “virginity tests” by checking to see if a woman’s hymen, a thin membrane that partially covers the entrance to the vagina, is still intact.
Beyond the fact that “hymen checks” have no scientific or medical basis, the practice can have long-lasting impacts on women. For Corrado, it’s an experience that she says “haunts me 11 years later.” Despite her discomfort, the exam was done without cause for concern until her doctor asked an unprompted question that she says made her feel “judged” and “violated.”
“I felt violated and I felt ashamed as someone who was having sex. I felt like I couldn't talk about it. Because of that, I felt like I could never talk to my doctor or my parents about having sex,” Corrado tells Yahoo Lifestyle. Virginity exams"violate the rights of women"On Nov. 8, Solages introduced the bill in response to the incendiary comments made by T.I. in the hopes of altogether banning New York State “virginity tests” — or exams in which two fingers or a speculum are inserted into the vagina in search of the hymen or to measure the elasticity of the vaginal wall.
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