“She underwent a surgery to repair her hymen after experiencing a tear during childbirth.”

“Examination of her hymen showed a dilated orifice after initial spasm and inability to relax.”

“Genitalia were noted to be normal externally, but the hymen appeared to be somewhat distorted and scarred with a rather high free edge.”

“Foster said girls whose hymens had been pierced were considered outcasts.”

“The narrator does not deplore the grim underpinnings of whoredom, or consider the atavistic barbarism of buying girls in order to crack their hymens.”

“Their hymens were inspected by a male Army doctor who left the door of his examination room open, exposing the women to the leers of the guards outside.”