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How would you react if
your virginity becomes the gateway to higher education? According to some
members of Egyptian parliament, before female students are worthy of receiving
higher education, they must prove that they are virgin. According to one
parliamentary member Elhamy Agina, who last month spearheaded the campaign of
FGM for women to be compulsory, has once again called on the Egyptian Minister
of Education to introduce compulsory virginity test before girls are admitted
to the universities.
Egypt which declared
these kinds of tests illegal in 2011 when the Egyptian court outlawed the
compulsory virginity tests to detainee as illegal and disgusting has really
been shocked at the utterance of Elhamy Agina. Although women remain to be seen
as a tool of sexual satisfaction in many countries like Swaziland, Lesotho and South
Africa where virginity is used as a measure to be given scholarships, this kind
of practices only aim at downgrading the level of education among girls.
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