The Virgin-Creep Complex
By Amanda and iocaste save me the trouble of pestering people to excerpt yet another WSJ article, as they discuss today’s cover story about hymen reconstruction, starting with an especially creepy account of obtaining one as an anniversary gift. One of these days I expect to read the paper and find accounts of women getting circumcisions to prove that they will remain faithful.
This reminds me of a depressing but at least funny teaching anecdote. I was putting together a comparative law syllabus, and a professor told be about a book about female genital mutilation that he had used. The book was good, but during one of the lectures a student raised his hand and asked, “what’s a clitoris?” I decided not to use the book–one reason I decided not to teach high school was to obviate any chance that I would have to teach sex ed…