According to CNN, an Egyptian general is now admitting to performing virginity checks on women arrested in demonstrations earlier this year. The reason?
CNN reports "The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn't later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.
"We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," the general said. "None of them were (virgins)."
Yeah, and of course, if they were not already virgins, that would prove that they were not assaulted after the virginity test was performed. Idiots! I cringe when I hear stories like this, and really wonder what century these men are stuck in.
I don't usually wish bad stuff on people, but secretly I do wish that these men just once are put in a similarly undignified position, just for payback. Maybe the new government should do an anal check on all military personnel - with a few women watching on as witnesses, just to make sure they have not engaged in anal sex? Pretty sure that disqualifies an Egyptian soldier from continuing his career, don't you think?
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