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Virginity

Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan in the 2000 drama “Love & Basketball.”

First-times in film: The good, the bad and the excruciatingly awkward

Arts, Culture & Media

From the post-virginity era to the sex-quest movie and, thankfully, beyond.

Female Indonesian police officers stand guard outside the presidential palace during a protest against the recent fuel price hike in Jakarta on November 19th, 2014.

Indonesia has subjected policewomen to ‘humiliating’ virginity tests for decades

Justice
Tunisia has boasted some of the most advanced women's rights in the Arab world. But old habits die hard. Men still routinely demand that their future wives be virgins.

‘Re-virgination’ surgeries are on the rise in Tunisia

Lifestyle & Belief
Tunisia has boasted some of the most advanced women's rights in the Arab world. But old habits die hard. Men still routinely demand that their future wives be virgins.

‘Re-virgination’ surgeries are on the rise in Tunisia

Lifestyle & Belief

Slideshow: Thracian Tinkerers Keep Bride-Buying Tradition Alive

The World

Texas abstinence

Health & Medicine

Faith talks to journalist Katy Vince about the broad failure of abstinence education programs in the state of Texas, as described in her new Texas Monthly article, ?Faith, Hope and Chastity.?