It’s not every day that a second-year art school project makes headlines. But in October 2013, the press got wind of one Central Saint Martins student’s plan for a new performance piece, titled Art ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hard-wired myths around female virginity have commanded the lives of women and their role in rites of love for centuries. But just ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s national police were urged Tuesday to halt virginity tests for women applying to join the force in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country with Human Rights Watch saying the ...

This fall, a Swedish TV channel reported that three doctors at different medical institutions perform virginity tests, ordered by relatives, usually against patients’ will. Outrageous as that is, the ...

As a debate continues in the U.S over reproductive rights, teenage girls in the Republic of Mongolia are fighting for the right not to be subjected to so-called "virginity tests" in schools. The ...

When it comes to virginity and marriage, many cultures at home and abroad have, from time immemorial, paid special importance to the bride’s purity. From wearing a white dress on their wedding day as ...

CAIRO (AP) – An Egyptian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in ...