This obsession with virginity is shallow at best and deadly at worst.

These archaic sections corresponded to behavior originating in the colonial period, when virginity and the payment of dowries were valued as currency.

Those arrested by the military during the anti Mubarak protests were subjected to virginity tests as a form of intimidation.

And in fact, this technology has gotten so developed that this creature this is a moth this is the moth in its pupa stage, and that's when they put the wires in and they put in the computer technology, so that when the moth actually emerges as a moth, it is already prewired.

During the period after the fall of Mubarak, when the army exercised full power, 12,000 civilians were charged in military courts, virginity tests were imposed on women (particularly those protesting against the military), demonstrators were killed, and myriad human rights violations were committed with impunity.