An expert panel of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has collectively proposed to remove the contents of “virginity test” from the curriculum of forensic medicine of MBBS course. The boards move came in response to a detailed report submitted to Registrar of MUHS, Dr. K D Chavan on December 26, 2018 by Khandekar.

Khandekar had urged the state government and the MUHS to remove the contents about “virginity test” from the medical curriculum of forensic medicine subject of MBBS course on the ground that it has no scientific basis.

In his report, Khandekar, had highlighted the unscientific basis on which the virginity is determined by doctors and reasons for its removal from the syllabus. The report also highlights how it violates human rights and leads to gender discrimination.

Almost all the textbooks of forensic medicine of MBBS course include the details of virginity, its signs and medicolegal aspects. Khandekar said some textbooks also give details about `false virgin and true virgin’. But no textbook has given any scientific literature or reference to support this information.

Inclusion of `signs of virginity’ in medical curriculum/textbooks has created wrong impression in the minds of doctors, general public, communities that virginity test is scientific and medical one.

He also said that virginity is a very personal issue and no one has any right to know that the other person is virgin or not.