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Not just Egypt; the UK has played this game, too.  But not with white ladies, of course.

prettynaughtythings:

Apparently in Egypt you can’t be raped unless you are a virgin. Really?!?! Really!?!? And the woman interviewed said she submitted to the test on threat of electrocution. Never mind that some of these women could have been married. The very suggestion that only virgins or women who meet some kind of moral purity test can be raped is utterly vile and inhumanly disgusting.

Out with one broken, corrupt regime and in with a new one.

…a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.

“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,” the general said…

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).”

 (via Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters - CNN.com)