In Europe, Debate Over Islam and Virginity -Elaine Sciolino & Souad Mekhennet
[F]or the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity.
Like an increasing number of Muslim women in Europe, she had a hymenoplasty, a restoration of her hymen, the vaginal membrane that normally breaks in the first act of intercourse. The service is widely advertised on the Internet; medical tourism packages are available to countries like Tunisia where it is less expensive.
The French College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians opposes the procedure on moral, cultural and health grounds.
[New York Times]
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