This paper addresses modern Turkish medicine as arbitrator of two modern medical
practices: virginity surgery and virginity tests. These medical procedures are currently
practiced by medical doctors [obstetrician-gynecologists (ob/gyns)] in modern Turkish
society. The virginity of unmarried women has had a great significance for many cultures.
The taboos on pre-marital sexual relationships contribute to this social anxiety over the
hymen of women. In this respect, in contemporary Turkish society medicine plays a …