Virgin Surgeon Mixes Cultural Politics, Vanity

The internet is full of ads for ways to reclaim one's virginity. From creams to prayers to motivational speakers promoting abstinence, the industry of secondary virginity is booming, but no "cure" has reinduced actual physical virginity.
Until now, of course.

San Antonio surgeon Dr. Troy Hailparn has built up a practice in reconstructive vaginal surgery, the Houston Press reports this week. According to the article she's treated wives who want their husbands to re-deflower them (Houstonist isn't sure this would be our thing, but whatever works for you), rape victims seeking control over their own destiny, and, perhaps most interestingly, a large number of Middle Eastern women who, having engaged in pre-marital sex, risk death in their home countries if they are found not to be virgins upon their marriages.

Less politically interestingly, Hailparn also does cosmetic surgery: women travel from as far as Alaska to undergo procedures that, we guess, make them feel prettier. Never a group to be left behind any cosmetic surgery trend, Houston women are making the drive to Dr. Hailparn in what the Press calls "increasing numbers".

Though this is the fastest growing category of cosmetic surgery according to Dr. V. Leroy Young, chairmen of the Emerging Trends Task Force of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Houstonist for one would like to register a vote against it's being shown on Extreme Makeover, though one porn star broadcast her surgery on the internet and auctioned off what the Press ever so delicately refers to as "excised flesh."

Houstonist apologizes for disrupting anyone's appetite for lunch.