You may be interested to know that so far as the medical profession in France is concerned, the hymen was only discovered in the 19th century. Midwives had been talking about it for centuries of course, but how could serious Medical Men trust them?
Presumably virginity itself was recognised as a pre-existing condition in earlier times, viz La Pucelle d'Orléans (Joan of Arc) and the Mary character.
So you can possibly skip the reconstructive surgery.
Personally I'd take my clothes: buying new ones is such a pain. I was looking over the shoulder of a colleague reading one of my emails, which also showed my official ID photo: I realised I was wearing the same jumper I had for that photo when I arrived 9 years ago.
That's interesting; I believe that people have been looking for it for quite a long, long time. However, by the time midwives get involved, I presume it's a little bit too late to find very much evidence of it, one way or the other. I'm led to believe it's a little bit like the quest for the Holy Grail: now you see it, now you don't - quite confusing, I imagine, and possibly a concept best left to its own devices.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it has deep Haitian/African origins, and is celebrated in a ritual that has something to do with rolling around in a river of mud and making very round eyes at nothing in particular. I'm told that with obsessive thinking about it, the smoking of interesting varieties of weed, it's possible to conjour up the image of a lady photographer from Magnum, thus fulfilling one of the deeper, key emotional goals of the mud ritual.
We live in amazing times.
Rob