Virginity test is a test that is conducted to
determine whether a female person is a virgin or not. The test result depends
on the condition of the female’s hymen on the assumption that she is not a
virgin if her hymen is torn. Since it needs to test on a female’s private part
of body, people find it controversial to conduct this virginity test,
especially for high school students. The pro side believes that to conduct a
virginity test is important and compulsory for them since it is not harmful and
it can prevent students from free-sex. However, there are still some stronger
arguments standing in believe that virginity test should not be conducted to
high school students because it against human rights and it can affect
students’ psychological and physical condition.
The first reason why it is a big mistake to
conduct virginity test to high school students is that it really against human
rights. Undang Undang Dasar 1945 verse
28 B line 2 stated that every child has the right to live, grow and develop and
also has the right of the protection from violation and discrimination. By
conducting virginity test to high school students, it means that they will be
tested on their hymen, which is a very private part of body for female. If the
hymen is interpreted to be broken or torn, where only the hymenal remnants are
found, then the woman fails the test and it is believed that she has already
engaged in sexual intercourse (Anonymous, 2010). Later, this test’s result will
determine whether the students are allowed to enter high school or not. This is
very unfair. How come this kind of result can determine the success of high
school students? What is the point anyway to conduct this kind of test? Does it
mean that they are not allowed to continue their study if they do not pass the
test? Undang Undang Dasar 1945 verse 31
line 1 stated that every citizen has the right get the education. From this
regulation, we can clearly see and say that not even a virginity test can
prevent students to get education. In other words, it surely is against human
right if people start considering to pass this test as a valid requirement to
enter school.
The second argument why virginity test should
not be mandatory for high school students is that it can affect psychological
side of the students themselves. The condition of the hymen is the determiner
whether they can pass the test or not. Yet, we cannot just generally conclude
that a person is not a virgin because she does not pass the test. Hymen can be broken not only because of a sexual
intercourse, but also because of some other reasons. Participating in sports
like cycling, horseback riding or gymnastic can cause hymen tears. Therefore, whether
or not a woman’s hymen is intact cannot be physical proof or whether or not she
has engaged in sexual intercourse. Yet, once they are told that they are not
virgin, people will look at them in different. In this case, of course they will feel confuse
because they are being marked as people who do bad things, even they do not. Let
us take example from an illustration; there is a girl who is an athlete that
has to lift very heavy materials. In this occasion, her hymen is so vulnerable
to be broken. If she is being tested and it is found out that she is ‘not
virgin’, it is more likely that the cause is from the sport itself. However,
our society believes that once you are told that you are not a virgin, it means
that you have done something bad and it is known that you are a bad person.
Thus, a girl in the illustration above may be marked as a bad person too. It is
so unfair right? Her psychological side can be disrupted and it will annoy her
a lot. She is more likely to think that she indeed is a bad person because her
society forces her to. In other words, the conduction of virginity test is can
really affect students’ mentality and gives bad impact for them.
However, responding to the bad sides of making
virginity test compulsory for high school students, there are also some pro
opinions that agree with this issue. People may state that conducting virginity
test is important because it can prevent students from doing free-sex. But these
ideas are not necessarily true. First, it is so nonsense to say that a lone virginity
test can really prevent students from doing free-sex. There is no solid proof
proving that conducting virginity test can decrease the number of students
doing free-sex. There are many reasons that trigger students to do free-sex,
one of them is environment. Environment plays an important role to build
someone’s characteristic, especially the vulnerable ones like high school students.
For instance, if a female high school student is already involved in a free-sex
because of a certain condition like her environment, then what? Does virginity
test will stop her from doing that? Of course not. We can stop or decrease the
number of high school students from doing free-sex by giving them a good
understanding from the very beginning, giving them a good atmosphere of their
environment, and also giving them a good spiritual understanding that doing
free-sex is wrong. Thus, in other words,
although we are conducting virginity test, it will not help anything because
they are not trained by their characters. Let us take an example from an
illustration; there is a female high school student who had involved in a
sexual intercourse before. When she is told that she will be tested in a
virginity test, it is more likely that she takes it easy. She will not be
bothered by the result since she is aware that she is not a virgin anymore. Later,
she will not hesitate to keep doing free-sex since that virginity test does not
change anything at all from her life. Thus, how can we say that conducting
virginity test is a very effective way to suppress the rapid growth of free-sex
among high school students?
To sum up, why conducting virginity test
should be forbidden for high school students is supported by some strong
arguments, such as that conducting virginity test is against human rights and
it can affect students’ mentality. Yet, some people have a different perception
responding to this issue. They state that to conduct virginity test is really
important for high school students because it is an effective way to minimize
the number of free-sex among students. However, if we take a really good look, conducting
virginity test is really ineffective an unimportant for high school students.
Thus, virginity test should be forbidden for high school students since it really
is unnecessary.
References:
Undang
Undang Dasar NKRI 1945
www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/virgintytest.html
http://theconversation.com/women-suffer-the-myths-of-the-hymen-and-the-virginity-test-35324
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