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Friday, December 16, 2005 12:00 AM

Like a virgin

Now available at a plastic surgeon's office near you: Hymenoplasty!
Farhad Manjoo

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  • Friday, December 16, 2005 11:43 PM

    more anecdotal confirmation

    Re-virgination is nothing new among Islamic women. About 30 years ago, I worked on a project involving about 50 Algerian engineers and technicians. The wife of one of them was Canadian, very intelligent and very interesting. She told me that Algerian women who went to France or Canada for their education not uncommonly sought the help of a discreet plastic surgeon in Paris to hide their sexual activity before they returned home.

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