http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-06/virginity-testing-ritual-faces-growing-opposition-in-india/9619884
it's a long article so I won't put it all up. I'll just put up a few extracts that I found surprising
The groom is given a white cloth to use while having sex with his bride on their wedding night.
Their relatives and members of the village council sit outside the door of the couple's room until the act is complete.
Before the couple enters, the elders sweep the room for any sharp objects that may be used to produce blood.
The bride's bangles are removed so that she can't cut her skin with them.
And there's a time limit.
"Every five to 10 minutes they will keep on knocking and they will keep on asking if you are done with the intercourse," Priyanka said.
If nothing happens, the elders will go in and encourage the couple to watch porn or instruct them on how to have intercourse.
"They keep offering help to instigate sexual activity, like blue videos or medicines," Vivek said.
"In case the couple is not in the mindset, or they are not able to go through intercourse, they will even demonstrate to them with a real couple.
"They will send a couple inside and they will do the physical act in front of them, they will show them porn videos.
"They will do anything to pressure them, but they have to pass this test."
After sex, the groom is expected to display the white bedsheet for inspection by relatives and elders.
"He's supposed to tell the whole caste council consisting of 150, 200 people that, my 'product' was perfect, my 'product' was pure," Vivek said.
If the bride is deemed "impure", there are several possible outcomes.
She is often pressured tell the community elders who she has had sex with.
The process gives no credit to medical evidence that a woman's hymen can be ruptured without sexual intercourse, and that not all women bleed when it is broken.


an appalling practice.