[ExI] egyptian protesters

[Stefano Vaj]

On 31 May 2011 06:19, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> "We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we
> wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," the general
> said. "None of them were (virgins)."
>
> In the west, a positive test for virginity would prove the women had not
> been raped, but in Egypt, a negative test for virginity apparently
> demonstrates that the protester cannot be raped.  To add insult to injury,
> non-virginity is grounds for being charged with prostitution.

Well, I suspect it might be a little subtler than that.

Virginity tests may actually have been aimed at avoiding later rape
complaints where lack of virginity were offered as evidence that a
rape actually took place (on the tune of "How do you dare suspect poor
victims of prior consensual sex, thus publicly labeling them as
prostitutes and adding insult to injury?").

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Stefano Vaj