“HuffPost Her Stories” is a new series highlighting HuffPost’s coverage of women’s lives from across our 15 global editions. Dear reader,HuffPost Maghreb’s Ibtissam Ouazzani has written a fascinating article about the prevalence of “virginity testing” in Morocco and what it might take to stop it. (Some women who have “failed” the test have killed themselves or been killed by family members, the organizations point out.) And yet the practice persists across social classes in places like Morocco, where doctors dole out up to 10 “virginity certificates” a day during the country’s marriage season. “We see more and more couples getting married after being together for years and having intercourse,” Ibtissam said.

Source: Huffington Post November 02, 2018 20:25 UTC