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Process of Getting “Virginity Certificates” in Afghanistan

A twenty-three-year-old woman whose stepmother poured acid on her nose at a young age to keep her from competing with her stepsisters for a good husband. The woman escaped to a shelter in Kabul run by the NGO Women for Afghan Women after her father tried to marry her off to a seventy-year-old man for money.

In the graphic opening of “Love Crimes,” writer Jen Percyinterviews an Afghani hymen…