Slog - Comments on Frankencrotch http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch I read this Wall Street Journal article on hymen repair surgery several weeks ago, but I can't get it out of my mind. It keeps hitting me with aftershocks of unpleasantness. I think about hymens while doing the dishes, and worse, I force my friends to talk about them an awful lot. Revirgination is a supposedly hot new fad among American women, and according to one reinvented 40-year-old virgin: "It's the ultimate gift for the man who has everything.” Vomit. Rinse. Repeat. I wouldn't wish a second virginity on any man I've had sex wtih. Conversely, I cannot understand how... Copyright 2007 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:18:34 -0800 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:42:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dave Bowman There is no depravity that Americans will refuse to sink to if they can make money off of it.

]]> Dave Bowman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005092 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:59:53 -0800 Comment by Brian You know what I buy men who have everything? Wool socks.

New socks are always in order - even if you don't have everything. One of life's minor pleasures is putting on a pair of brand new socks. If they are wool then so much the better.

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005105 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:57:26 -0800 Comment by B.D. I saw the article and can say that I totally agree with you. On one hand, however, I'm not terribly shocked. In a culture that places such a high regard on artifice, can one really be surprised at this sort of combination of Freudian, patriarchal views and body modification? If you are surprised, then you're going to be absolutely shocked when, at some point, someone begins marketing "designer hymens". It will happen.

]]> B.D. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005108 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005108 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:04:25 -0800 Comment by Anon Maybe we could start a fad where they construct a hymen over relgious conservatives mouths. Make it like they're a fag if they don't have their mouth-hymen.

]]> Anon http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005123 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:51:13 -0800 Comment by Chris Oh man, a brand new pair of really nice wool socks, like those Smart Wool socks, that is just pure heaven.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005127 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:12:32 -0800 Comment by Brian There is no depravity that Americans will refuse to sink to if they can make money off of it.

Hey wait a second - are you talking about hymen repair or wool socks?

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005131 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005131 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:53:16 -0800 Comment by cienna oh my god, I hadn't even considered the designer hymen yet. You're right, it'll happen. Women are going to start lining their vaginas with mink. It will be the newest wave in Vagina Technology by 2007. I bet my hymen on it (again).

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005132 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005132 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:56:41 -0800 Comment by Anonymous This procedure has been practiced for years in the Middle East (this comes as a big shock, I'm sure) so that unmarried daughters who were raped or who engaged in consensual sex could be passed off as virgins on the marriage market.

]]> Anonymous http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005138 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005138 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:22:25 -0800 Comment by craig My darling Cienna forgot to mention that many a seedy porn store sells a delightful toy called "The Cherry Popper" -- a wholesome and Godly contraption that can be penetrated (made love to?) and releases (from a refillable cartdridge!) a bloodlike substance. Who else is SO HORNY right now?!

]]> craig http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005140 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005140 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:33:12 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo "This week on a very special Extreme Makeover: Saudi Arabia Edition..."

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005141 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:36:47 -0800 Comment by Chris Comte Actually, it IS possible to have too many socks - wool or otherwise. I have entire drawers full of socks I never wear. And the wool ones only go camping, so I seldom need all of the seven or eight pairs I own.

As for rehymenizing - um, so what do these women do after they've been "deflowered" a second time? Go back for a third go-round of virginity? And how many times does one get to be a virgin, before somebody points out the obvious fact that regardless, you can only have your "first time" once? I mean, "second first time" just sounds silly and redundent.

Clearly, this is just a clever ploy by the cosmetic surgery industry to drum up repeat business.

]]> Chris Comte http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005153 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:29:11 -0800 Comment by inhibitionist Most guys I know HATE the idea of deflowering a woman. This is so fucked up in so many ways.

]]> inhibitionist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005162 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:30:04 -0800 Comment by lostboy My girlfriend sometimes complains that she wishes her breasts were larger. I don't why. They are as beautiful as the rest of her and perfectly sized in balance with the rest of her body. I remind of how beatiful she is (breasts, smile, spirit, and all) often.

Similarly, I'm 36 and have zero interest in ever being with a virgin. I am actively disinterested in ever being with a "revirginized" woman. No disrepect to the BDSM fans, but causing someone else pain is not my idea of a good time.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005164 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:36:18 -0800 Comment by defman23 Holy shit. I know this is not really funny subject matter, but your writing just made me spit out my lunch in a fit of laughter. That's gross, but meant to be a compliment. Thanks for being an entertaining writer.

]]> defman23 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005175 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005175 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:42:52 -0800 Comment by Deborah Pearson First of all I would like to say that I really enjoyed reading your comment on this article. It made me laugh and I absolutely agree with you. (I was directed to this by a friend, I live in the UK.)

Secondly, I have never heard of this procedure being carried out here in the UK, but I am sure it is, I still do not understand why any sane woman would want to go through her 'first time' again. I recalled mine briefly as I was chuckling away at your post, then quickly made myself forget about it again.

I wonder if this desire to create a new Hymen is part of the insurgence of religious right-wing fundementalism? They have a strange inturpretatio n of virginity.

]]> Deborah Pearson http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005182 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005182 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:16:31 -0800 Comment by Chris Gaines "Losing your virginity is like losing a member of your family."

Yeah, exactly - a boring, socially retarded member of your family who embarassed you in front of your friends and stayed home on New Year's Eve to watch the Seventh Heaven marathon. R.I.P.

]]> Chris Gaines http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005183 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:37:37 -0800 Comment by cienna There was a Seventh Heaven marathon?

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005184 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005184 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:54:28 -0800 Comment by CiennasMommy Does this mean you took back the punchcard Grandma and I got you for Christmas? The 12th Hyman was going to include a complimentary pair of wool socks! Knee Highs!

]]> CiennasMommy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005186 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005186 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:16:52 -0800 Comment by cienna Wow. The only thing creepier than the thought of buying back my virginity is the thought of my mother doing it for me.

Thanks for upping the ante mom.

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005188 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:26:14 -0800 Comment by Flewellyn If you are surprised, then you're going to be absolutely shocked when, at some point, someone begins marketing "designer hymens". It will happen.



Wrong verb tense, I fear. It happens now.

]]> Flewellyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005190 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005190 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:37:57 -0800 Comment by cienna It's not designer until I'm ovulating jewel-encrusted key chains bearing my initials.

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005191 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/01/frankencrotch#c005191 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:42:05 -0800