In a world where a hook-up can be equivalent to a handshake and sex-positive influencers dominate social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking the concept of virginity still mattered to anyone. But ...

Gen. Sri Rumiati served as a policewoman in Indonesia for decades, but her life’s work became centered around protesting a policy of the state security forces. When she was summoned for military ...

KWAZULU-Natal traditionalists are reverting to virginity testing to control sexual behaviour and HIV/Aids but Western doctors and social workers believe it is a degrading custom that encourages the ...

South Africa is set to ban the age-old Zulu custom of virginity testing on young girls, even though traditionalists have vowed to disregard the new measure. The tradition, which involves the ...

Virginity tests are illegal, according to Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, a consultant family physician at the teaching hospital of Lagos State University, who made the statement in Ilorin on Wednesday. He ...

NONGOMA, South Africa -- One week before, Nonhlanhla Mhkize had risen early, walked to her tribal chief's home, climbed a desolate hill and lain on a blanket for what leaders of her Zulu culture call ...

The Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a decision about a defendant who confessed to raping 12 girls, all under the age of 15. The court ordered the girls to take virginity tests. Women want the TCK ...

The comments, as soon as they made the rounds, were met with swift condemnation: Rapper T.I. says he takes his daughter to the gynecologist after each birthday to determine if she's a virgin.

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Female high school students in Turkmenistan’s coastal province of Balkan are being subjected to mandatory virginity tests, which officials say are needed to evaluate the ...