Virginity check? WHY!!!

[Tairbear]

I have the YOUGOV survey app

And this morning I'm alarmed by this question... can anyone shed some light on why this service maybe needed? Under what circumstances? It's honestly floored me

New thread in Petitions board. Please sign and share widely.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/petitions_noticeboard/4104315-Ban-Virginity-Tests

England?

Does this not only apply to Scotland, Wales and NI then, the other countries in the United Kingdom?

Would a ban on this type of operation not cause a rise in illegal clinics opening to 'fill a need'
Just a thought as to why this might give rise to this question
You can think that virginity testing is abhorrent, but still not support a ban.

If you belive it's abhorrent, why would you NOT support a ban?

@Dances

England?

Does this not only apply to Scotland, Wales and NI then, the other countries in the United Kingdom?

Maybe there are women's orgs in the other countries in the UK that can collaborate with the MEWSo group? That would help raise the profile of the issue. I don't know if stats are collected, say in Scotland, about prevalence of virginity tests. Would be good to have some research on this.

@PaleBlueMoonlight

I agree, it is difficult to understand why you might not think banning is not a good idea. I imagine because of the fear of pushing it underground and/or the difficulty of defining virginity testing in practice,but I don’t know. It isn’t a topic that I have thought much about. However, I do know that there is always another side and that legislators need to be alert to unintended consequences. Banning something is an incredibly blunt tool.

Coming quite late to this discussion, but while agree that banning as a policy has lots of potential unintended consequences that need to be carefully considered, we are talking about a public opinion poll. Ban/not ban is a blunt instrument question, but if they're checking public opinion it gives a clear-ish result that policy makers can take into consideration.

I realise we do have a bit of a problem at the moment when it comes to policy-by-populist-headline, but that's not supposed to be how it works!

Guessing loads read that incorrectly because I did! I had to go back to look at it after reading your comments.....