Virginity tests. Legal or not?!


Question: Virginity tests. Legal or not?
Are virginity tests legal in the United States? I've googled this question a bajillion times and I came up with a few results here, but none of the answers answered the question. They were all basically like. "That's not fair for you parents to do it." or "It's better that you be honest and tell them you're not a virgin." and the occasional "I didn't know virginity tests existed." I don't care whether you think it's ethical or not. I just want to know if it's legal and if it varies from state to state, I need to know what the law in California is. Thanks in advance.

Answers:

Short answer, NO they're not legal.

Long answer, there no real way for someone to determine if someone is a virgin (even a trained health care professional can't tell). In the case of legal minors (under the age of 18), the test itself could be considered child abuse; according to Amnesty International it is a human rights violation. Further, legal adults (18 years old) have full autonomy over their bodies and actions.


"Forced 'gynecological examinations' and 'virginity testing,' when a woman is examined without her consent ostensibly to determine whether her hymen is intact, violate women's human rights to bodily integrity and sexual autonomy. Even though a torn hymen is not evidence of sexual activity, the revelation that a woman's hymen is not intact may bring great shame upon her family, ruin her chances of marriage and economic security, and even lead to her murder."

http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-again…



There is no way anyone could tell the way you break your hymen. Which I am assuming what these "tests" look at. You can break your hymen from sex, but you can also break it other ways. Any "hit" to the groin area could break it. Like if you sat down on your bicycle seat to hard, that could break it.

So this wouldn't be a conclusive way for someone to tell if you were a virgin or not. So this test would be invalid and stupid.

And it seems that it is only done in places like South Africa, India and the middle east.




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