For those ignorant to the Patriarchy, you may wonder what is significant about a piece of flesh and bloody sheets. If that piece of flesh is your hymen and you have bloody sheets on your wedding night, then it means a lot. Apparently it means so much to Muslim women that they are paying thousands of dollars to restore their hymens to make them qualified for marriage.
Now you may ask yourself: Gee, what do men have to do to restore their hymens? Well, first off: men don't have them. Beside, we're not talking about the purity of men, we're talking about the purity of women, silly! In my constant effort to understand the Muslim religion and the cultures in which it permeates, I keep running into brick walls when trying to understand how it is not oppressive to women. (Let me just qualify that Christianity has the same unfair and impossible expectations surrounding female virginity.)
Hymen Restoration sounds painful and completely unnecessary. (duh) The fact that women have to obtain a "certificate" of virginity in order to be deemed suitable for marriage is asinine and shocking in these so-called progressive times. How can one find painful intercourse and bloody sheets romantic or a turn-on? (some do.) How many annoying things must a woman do to prove her ability to be a loving wife? (a shitload) Not only does she have to lose her identity and take her husband's name to prove her undying love and commitment, she also has to make sure that a piece of flesh is still in tact, protecting entrance into her birthing canal and sex hole. Geez.
All this to spend day after day after day of your life with the same person doing to same shit.
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