Just when you thought the world couldn’t get anymore nuts, Gigimo, an adult-site, starts selling artificial hymens in a box. Now I’m convinced our planet is doomed, but at least some of y’all can fake it for the nutty men who’d  get off from a woman utilizing this.

 

 

 

When I saw this over at alternet today my head started spinning.  I immediately thought of an episode of ”Private Practice”  that aired last week. A young woman asked the doctor to sew her hymen back up so her parents could marry her off to a man in another country who was expecting her to be a virgin.

 

I can imagine a Lorraine Bobbit scenario if a man tried to ask a woman in this country to purchase an artificial virginity kit, but I could be wrong.  Jill Filipovic over at Feministe said:

I’m not really sure what to say about this, other than if he wants to re-live you losing your virginity in all of its blood-oozing glory, or if you have to fake losing it to please him, dump the motherfucker already.

 

Unfortunately for us ladies, the “artificial virginity hymen” doesn’t come with an “artificial virginity penis” that jackhammers for 22 seconds before shrivelling and passing out next to you in the backseat of his parents’ car.

 

All jokes aside, the cultural and religious environment that gives birth to ridiculous products like this need to die. The only women who I can imagine benefiting from an artificial virginity kit are those who live in effed up countries that execute young girls for not keeping their legs closed.  The product was first made in Kyoto, Japan in 1993 according to the website. It’s gained popularity in South East Asia, South Asia and in the Middle East countries, since then. 

 

Women’s issues in the U.S. aren’t so pretty either, but clearly things could be a lot worse.

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