Virginity tests and artificial virginity in modern Turkish medicine

The importance of virginity in 1972.

I would like to emplhasize for the medlical profession the public and private healtlh benefits resultinig from sexual continence. In this age of apparent moral clhaos an(d sexual lil)eration, the virgin and the open advocacy of virginity for young people seem to have become undesirable anachronisms, in part because the mnedical and biological search for sexual truths that shall make us free has...

Virginity testing: a systematic review

BACKGROUND So-called virginity testing, also referred to as hymen, two-finger, or per vaginal examination, is the inspection of the female genitalia to assess if the examinee has had or has been habituated to sexual intercourse. This paper is the first systematic review of available evidence on the medical utility of virginity testing by hymen examination and its potential impacts on the examin...

Virginity and celibacy as health issues.

Adolescent Virginity Pledges in the United States

This paper presents a brief history of teen-focused abstinence groups and virginity pledge traditions. It then examines the various meanings virginity pledges have for the adolescents who take them. Much of this information is drawn from abstinence groups’ websites, as well as from personal interviews conducted by sociologists studying virginity loss. Several reasons for taking a virginity pled...

Virginity: A contribution to the specification of

In object-oriented programs built in layers, an object at a higher level of abstraction is implemented by objects at lower levels of abstraction. It is usually crucial to correctness that a lower-level object not be shared among several higher-level objects. This paper unveils some difficulties in writing procedure specifications strong enough to guarantee that a lower-level object can be used ...