(BBC) Police have warned of the dangers of virginity testing after a GP reported they were asked to “prove” a teenager was still a virgin.
South Yorkshire Police said a GP in the region reported they had been visited by a teenage victim and a family member and were asked to carry out a test.
Both hymenoplasty and virginity testing are illegal in the UK.
Police said the practices were “forms of brutal violence against women and girls” and would not be tolerated.
Virginity testing is checking the hymen is intact, while hymenoplasty is creating an artificial layer of tissue to imitate the hymen.
