Fake virgin device hits African market

MBABANE – A Chinese-made device that helps women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins, has found its way into the African market.

The device, known as the Artificial Hymen Kit, reportedly leaks a blood-like substance when inserted into the vagina and broken.
The kit costs around $30 (about E225.00) and is distributed by a company called Gigimo.
Information gathered from the internet is that the device “is intended to help newly married women to fool their husbands into believing they are virgins”.

According to Gigomo’s website, the kit is used by inserting it carefully into the vagina so that when your lover penetrates, it will ooze out liquid that looks like blood.
The amount oozed is reportedly not too much but the right scale and “in a few moans and groans, you will pass through undetectable”.   

The kit has already caused uproar in Egypt, a country where sex before marriage is considered by many as illicit.
Lawmakers and politicians have argued that the kit will make it easier for women to give in easily to sexual temptation.

As a result, government has been asked to take responsibility of fighting the product so as to uphold Egyptian and Arab customs.
Other Egyptian scholars have gone as far as calling for the punishment of anyone who is found to have imported the artificial hymen.
The scholars argued that the device encouraged illicit sexual relations and therefore its importation should not be allowed, as it had more harm than benefits.   

However, there are those Egyptians who have seen nothing wrong with the device, as they argued that bleeding was not the determinant factor when it came to virginity.  
Heba Kotb, an observant Muslim woman who hosts a sex talk show on TV, noted that the kit was similar to a medical procedure that attaches a broken hymen by stitching, a practice that is illegal in Egypt but secretly sought by women who fear punishment for pre-marital sex.