I was 15 years old when I sat across from my mom at our kitchen table, fidgeted with my nails, and said I’d like to go on birth control. I shouldn’t have been as nervous as I was — from when I was 12 ...

The Indonesian Army will no longer conduct "virginity tests" on female cadets, the army's chief of staff said Wednesday. The test, which the World Health Organization determined has "no scientific ...

It’s not every day that a second-year art school project makes headlines. But in October 2013, the press got wind of one Central Saint Martins student’s plan for a new performance piece, titled Art ...

CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates should ban the practice of "virginity testing," by physicians, according to medical students. Naeha Haridasa, an MD candidate, ...

Raped at 14, Shazia took the rare and courageous step of reporting the crime to Pakistani police, only to face a traumatic "virginity test" -- a long-standing practice that denies justice to victims.

CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptian activists rallied in Cairo on Friday, lambasting a recent military tribunal ruling that cleared a military doctor of charges he forced a "virginity test" on female ...

It is November 13th, 2019, and the virginity test is still a thing that exists. I am calling out the date, in case you thought maybe we had flashed back to, I don't know, 1519? Because in this our ...

Rapper T.I. made news earlier this month when he went on the Ladies Like Us podcast and revealed that he subjects his 18-year-old daughter to a yearly “virginity test.” On the now-deleted episode, T.I ...

The comments, as soon as they made the rounds, were met with swift condemnation: Rapper T.I. says he takes his daughter to the gynecologist after each birthday to determine if she’s a virgin. And yet, ...

Lawmakers on opposite sides of the country are considering new legislation that would be the first in the nation to ban "virginity testing." The two separate bills in the New York and California ...