Mamdouh Bitar, Ruba Mansour
We do not know any valid reason for the first wedding day to become an occasion for honoring or insulting the woman, nor do we see any justification for judging or evaluating the woman on the wedding night, However, this does not mean that others do not see a justification for it, On the wedding night, according to popular sentiment, the matter of virginity, i.e., the state of the hymen, becomes clear, Either the woman succeeds in gaining the respect of foolish people, especially the husband, or she fails, and thus her insult or honor becomes a result of her evaluation, This is the equation among savage, ignorant, patriarchal groups, Marriage does not truly take place between two human beings, but rather between an animalistic male and a vagina with a hymen, The presence of the hymen at the entrance of the vagina does not represent an inevitable biological reality, There are congenitally vaginas without a hymen!
Arab societies in the 21st century exist within a context of global developments they observe rather than participate in shaping, Take, for example, the issue of virginity, which has died out in advanced societies,These underdeveloped societies should have emulated those advanced societies, at least in some areas of life—scientific, political, material, or even intellectual, The Arab societies, often nomadic, possess nothing of note except oil, backwardness, and hunger. They neither created, invented, nor even discovered this oil, nor did they extract it from the earth or market it, Instead, they have created backwardness, hunger, violence, and racism, And, as is typical of these underdeveloped societies, they engage in deception, painting their backwardness with a false, glittering veneer! It is inconceivable that they could be the best of nations if they are so backward!
Life is about values, then morals, behaviors, science, knowledge, and much more, Virginity and its connection to values like honor is one of the “specialties” of Bedouin ignorance, Biological virginity is a “lie,” and the idea that values like honor are linked to the hymen is an even bigger lie, There is no honor in so-called honor crimes, which are committed in these societies because of perceptions of virginity and its relation to the hymen, It is not honorable to kill, but the issue of the hymen tops the justifications for killing in this region, and hymen reconstruction surgeries top the list in this region of the world, That is, the practice of dishonor tops the list in these societies, How can repairing the hymen with a cheap Chinese artificial hymen that costs $15 be considered a restoration of lost honor?
Honor has no relation to the hymen, and there is no such thing as biological virginity, It is dishonorable to reduce honor to what is called biological or surgical virginity, The presence or absence of the hymen, whether congenital or acquired, has no relation to honor, Rather, it is due to pathological psychological conditions that force the morally and psychologically deformed creature to believe that it is humiliating for him not to be the first knight in reaching the breaking of the hymen, Obsessive-compulsive disorder forces him to believe that being touched by another person’s hymen touches his manhood and masculinity, as if that woman was created only for him.
Humans are born with different physical characteristics, such as gender, weight, or various types of birth defects, They are also born with remnants of embryonic development, such as the appendix, which serves no purpose or necessity after birth, hence its name, This appendix can pose a risk to human life if it becomes inflamed, so it is surgically removed, In most cases, females are born with a hymen that has a perforation of varying shapes, This perforation is necessary for the passage of menstrual blood and other secretions out of the body, Blockage of the perforation leads to the accumulation of menstrual blood and other secretions, resulting in complications such as infections, which can be life-threatening. The hymen has no other function, and its absence is preferable, as medicine knows of no medical condition caused by its lack, It is a fetal remnant that should be removed after birth, especially in the Arab world, where the presence of the hymen is associated with unfounded moral considerations, In this region, the hymen is burdened with superstitious notions of honor or shame, Because of these myths, or because of the concept of honor… Shameful acts of honor are committed to wash away the mythical shame.
The rituals of defloration have become a fabrication of values and a surgical profession within the framework of something unnecessary, There is no need for virginity as an expression of high honor, Statistics in this region indicate that more than half of the men in this region have had sex before marriage, and less than half of the women have had sex before marriage,Therefore, a woman should remain honored and respected even without a hymen, which is not present in many women from birth or is acquired through sexual intercourse, Any attempt to link honor to the hymen will fail, Whoever does so reduces a woman to a hymen, that is, objectifies and devalues her, turning her into a creature to be bought and sold for $15. There is no such thing as a “used” woman and no such thing as a “new, sealed” woman. Whether a woman has a hymen or not does not change her value except in the eyes of the ignorant!
We believe that it is necessary immediately after birth to remove fetal remains such as the hymen, as a way out of the cycle of honor crimes and washing away shame, and then to eliminate the motives for hymen reconstruction and the costs of this reconstruction…!!!