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/ 6 August 2004

Where angels fear to tread

Dark knees, firm breasts, an intact hymen — inconclusive but satisfactory ways of speculating about a girl’s virginity. Virginity testing is, for the most part, a well-intentioned attempt to promote abstinence and abate the spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic. But reviving an age-old cultural practice to promote abstinence will do more harm than good for women’s sexuality.

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