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[Dr. Nathan] Wrobel is one of an unknown number of gynecologists in France who are willing to repair hymens, the membrane usually broken by the first act of sexual intercourse. He was one of the few doctors willing to talk about it. Wrobel says women come to him having convinced themselves that the procedure will somehow reverse the irreversible. "They tell me, 'I'll be a virgin again. You will make me a virgin,' which in reality is totally false. … It's a secret we share." Other doctors issue false virginity certificates or offer such tricks as spilling a vial of blood on the sheets to fool families into believing the bride has passed their purity bar.

if you're asking whether it is possible to surgically alter your hymen so that it looks like a picture in a textbook and no one would be able to tell by looking at your hymen that you'd ever had penetrative sex, the answer is that yes, some plastic surgeons will perform plastic surgery on your vaginal opening to make it appear to have a uniform, "pristine" hymen.

the hymen is a poor indicator of whether a woman has actually engaged in sexual intercourse because a normal hymen does not completely block the vaginal opening. The normal hymen is never actually "intact" since there is always an opening in it.

Of course this operation exists and is readily available in the middle east...I cant believe this was put on the site as if its something not widely known. Just to add onto this an awful but known fact (for anyone who has never picked up a national geographic or even a marie claire) some girls that are used for prostitution in China/India are sold as "virgins" to clients. What the client is not aware of however is that the girl is just stiched up over and over to be able to sell her again and again. Hymens of course are not all completely intact otherwise it would be difficult for a virgin to ever have a period. Think about it.

This procedure is also fairly common here in South Korea. I know a few women who were about to get married and were going to have the procedure done. I also seem to recall reading a news article a few months ago about this being a rising trend in the U.S. -- where married women would get the procedure done as an "anniversary present" for their spouse.

Actually, here is the article I was thinking of:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05349/622923.stm

Merve, not everyone knows everything that you do. This may be new to a lot of people. Everyone on this site knows that Bonsai Kittens aren't real but you still get thousands of people who fall for that every day. But it's through this site, and ones like it, that we educate ourselves. There's no need to be condescending about it.

Morning-After conversation:

"Hey, you know how I said I was a virgin? Pranked!"

Hilarious.

It's called 'maku-saisei'in Japan. I first saw an article on this over 10 years ago, but the procedure itself seems to be around 30 years old now.

Hi, thanks for citing me (even though the book isn't out yet -- I imagine you've seen either the FAQ on my site or one of the interviews I've given).

Hymenorraphy and hymenoplasty are both fairly common surgeries. There's a section in chapter five of my book (out in February 07) that discusses the surgeries in some detail.

One of your commenters mentioned that surgical "virginity restoration" is about 30 years old. In reality, various surgical and quasi-surgical attempts to "restore virginity" (scare quotes used for the obvious reasons) date from around the tenth century. Purely pharmaceutical methods of feigning/imitating/enhancing "virginal" characteristics go back much further, to the ancient Greeks.

But, as I say, more on all that can be found in the book, and thanks for the plug!

merve, i also was not aware of this practice. and i think it's good that this article was posted here, because it shows the inherent deceitfulness and chicanery of women.... JUST KIDDING!!

Let's come up with an equivalent surgery for the men -- something which makes intercourse painful for several iterations, just like it usually is for real female virgins.

"... for the men -- something which makes intercourse painful for several iterations ..."

What makes you think it's not?

A few months back, D Magazine (Dallas's local version of the Weekly World News) had a cover story titled "The New Boob Job." This article claimed that the hottest cosmetic surgery fad is for (mostly married) women to get their vaginas tightened, and that a high percentage of these customers opt to combine this with a "labial trim" (ouch!) and/or hymen restoration.

There's no accounting for taste, I guess.

i am not a virgin to get married in my culture you have to be a virgin i do not want to upset my family how is it to have a operation to repair the vagina

hi i want to know more about on how to recover once u loose ur virginity aside from surgery.

Thanks for the information.Very informative. Even though this is widely known, a bit of open discussion, will help.

I am not sure why a woman would want to have a hymen repaired unless it was broken through some unfortunate accident and she is that sensitive about it. The only other reason would be to intentionally deceive a partner, which would just be wrong.