" The macabre dictionary of virginity tests " is the latest publication of the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI) to denounce and condemn the risks of the sacredness, of female virginity and all the cruel practices surrounding it in Morocco .
A few days after the launch of the "STOP 490" campaign for the decriminalization of consensual and extramarital sexual relations, Moroccan civil society is engaged in another battle. The Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (M.A.L.I) has launched an online campaign aimed at ending the practice of virginity tests and the issuance of virginity certificates in Morocco.
Nearly twenty countries in the world, including Morocco, according to the WHO, make the "certificate of virginity" the cornerstone that determines the precious nature of marriage. But France wants to distance itself from these countries.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the penalization of virginity certificates that doctors issue to their patients as part of a religious marriage. This idea is not to the liking of gynecologist Ghada Hatem.
In her book Sex and Lies: The Sexual Life of Moroccans , published in Paris in 2017, the Franco-Moroccan journalist and writer Leïla Slimani describes the perception that Moroccan society has of the virginity of Moroccan women.
Certain traditional practices continue to resist time in Arab and Muslim countries like Morocco , to the point that marriage can shatter after the wedding night. Women pay the heavy price.
The police officers arrested a philosophy teacher who used his notes to sexually blackmail his students. The latter, aged 38, was caught in the act of sexual harassment, attempted rape and blackmail, by the police elements who, in collusion with the victim, set a trap for him.
Cases of rape are multiplying in Ouazzane. Faced with this painful situation for the families of the victims, it is the Regional Office of the Moroccan League of Human Rights (LMDH) that has taken the lead, proposing the "surgical castration" of criminals.
Virginity tests should no longer be issued by doctors in Belgium. This is at least what the Order of Physicians hopes, which has just issued a call to health professionals to no longer provide this controversial certificate.