Egyptian conservatives condemn the artificial virginity hymen kit as technology that will promote promiscuity in a culture that forbids premarital sex. Protests are arising in a nation that over the last 40 years has gone from miniskirts and secularism to Hijabs and religious devotion. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which controls 20% of the seats in Egypt’s parliament, have called for banning the kit and cleric Abdul Moeti Bayoumi has issued a fatwa urging that peddlers of the $29.90 device be charged with banditry and punished for spreading immorality and sin. However, the furor raises disturbing questions about double standards.