The Human Rights Watch has issued a rather shocking report that Indonesia continues to require medical exams for female police recruits to confirm that they are virgins. It is the latest example of the abuses and challenges facing women who try to find work in some countries. Other countries with such virginity tests include our erstwhile allies Egypt, India and Afghanistan.
Female officers and recruits described the so called “two-finger” test to determine whether their hymens are intact. The test was performed in at least six different cities. Incredibly, Indonesia’s national police posts the following warning on its website according to the group:
“In addition to the medical and physical tests, women who want to be policewomen must also undergo virginity tests. So all women who want to become policewomen should keep their virginity.”
Maj. Gen. Ronny Sompie has publicly defended the outrageous practice and asked people not “respond negatively” to the tests and insisted that they are aimed at ensuring applicants were free from sexually transmitted diseases. However, even if STDs are for some reason a priority in such recruitment, both male and female recruits also get blood tests for STDs. It is difficult to see how an intact hymen is relevant to that goal. Nevertheless, Sompie insisted that the tests are “done in a professional manner and did not harm the applicants.”
That would of course depend on your definition of “harm.”
Source: ABC
Paul – so not even the Queen of England was safe.
It’s so unfair because no one ever questions or requires a man’s virginity.
Karen – there is a rather infamous case of a Russian nobleman who because of some physical malformation was unable to have intercourse with his bride or anyone else. The session of the line was at stake so some of his buddies got him drunk, held him down and did some street surgery on him. Rumor is it was successful but painful.
Glycemic.
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Plus, when I do indulge on grain like a good pasta dish, I really enjoy it.
Squeeky – I trimmed way down, and my stomach flattened back out, very rapidly once I cut significantly down on all grain and sugar. You can’t do anything strict or un-fun for long, but changing the overall pattern really helped.
A “beer belly” is more like a “grain belly.”
Karen – beer is a food.
@KarenS
True. Karl Denninger has a lot of stories on this at his website, for example:
So, You’re Tired of Being A Fat B*st*rd?*
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3289664
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
That’s where we got the grain-based American diet, through scientific consensus that resulted from a poorly planned study.
Squeeky – that’s just awful.
Reminds me of how the entire food pyramid was based on a study that, unbeknownst to the author, was conducted during Lent. It did not accurately portray the eating habits of a healthy population, but rather an atypical diet during Lent.
And the government just latched right on.
And what if such a crude test ruptures the hymen? What will happen to those girls, no longer able to “prove” their virginity?
Karen – testing for virginity has always raised an issue for me which you also raised. The accidental breaking of the hymen during the examination. My curiousity was first piqued reading about Elizabeth I who was constantly being examined because she was constantly getting engaged. Each time there would be a royal ceremony where she would have to prove her virginity. She always passed with flying colors, hence The Virgin Queen.
Sounds like a sexual assault. What kind of perv is performing this “two finger test?” A doctor? A female or a male?
And I’m guessing they don’t welcome married women as police officers.
We can’t change others’ laws, but we can shine the disinfecting light of public scrutiny on the practice.
@PaulCS
Speaking of virginity tests, did you ever hear about Margaret Mead and the Samoa thingy??? Kind of where virginity tests meet global warming. . .
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/manti-teo-meet-margaret-mead/
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – some of Kiney’s work was based on the fantasy diaries of a gay man which then skewed the data so Kinsey estimated that 1 in 10 males was gay instead of the real number of about 2 in 100. Although Kinsey, his wife and their associates seemed to have had a lot of fun in their attic.
I am not so sure this is a bad idea. What if we started doing virginity tests before a woman could wear a white dress to her wedding??? Sort of a “truth in advertising” thingie???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – it has long (centuries) been considered permissible for engaged couples to engage in sexual intercourse. You would have to do the exam just before the bride walked down the aisle. 😉
I wonder if married women may serve as police officers.
This is pretty bad.
I think by “harm the applicant” he meant did not break the hymen. I do think if the women have virginity tests the men should have them, too, although I am not sure how you would test for it. 😉
So the same people who are obsessive about female “purity” are also obsessive about inspecting female intimate parts . I seeee. I think.
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Again, the Muslim War on Women, but the US feminists remain silent. They pounce on guys for wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
We would have virtually no female cops in the US if this were a requirement.
First sentence typo, “medical”
I’m not terribly surprised to be honest (I lived in neighboring Malaysia for 28 years before leaving); most Muslim countries have terrible human rights records especially when it comes to women and girls.