The Sun, By Emma Morton, 30 July 2010
“The controversial surgery – costing up to £4,000 a time – is performed in private clinics. The op is called a hymenoplasty. In the past five years, the NHS has paid for 116 of the operations. Thousands more women pay for the surgery privately every year, according to doctors. NHS bosses said that they only fund the op for “physical and psychological” reasons. But private medics said that it is often being performed to preserve the modesty of women who have had sex before marriage – but do not want their new husbands to know.”
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