Lawmakers in California are moving to ban what many feel is an archaic and demeaning practice: virginity testing. If performed by a doctor the procedure is currently allowed, ut a proposed bill would ...

Whether he was kidding or not, the gaffe has sparked a national conversation that’s prompted lawmakers to take action. New York legislators introduced a bill that would officially prohibit doctors and ...

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 ...

From behind the privacy curtain, a doctor is telling Sophia* to take off her knickers and trousers. She obliges while taking great shaking sobs. Trembling, she lies down and opens her legs. The doctor ...

Nov 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - France is split over plans to ban virginity testing, with some campaigners calling the procedure barbaric and others warning of violent repercussions for some ...

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 ...

Lawmakers in California are moving to ban what many feel is an archaic and demeaning practice: virginity testing. If performed by a doctor the procedure is currently allowed, but a proposed bill would ...