What hymenoplasty actually is? How many types of the procedure?

Can we tell the different between the hymen of the virgin (haven't had any intercourse) with the hymen of the result of hymenoplasty?

Is hymenoplasty actually legal? Is it dangerous?
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Hymenoplasty is a sexist, misogynist farce, which is of NO benefit to women, and only exists because of the prevalence of myths about the hymen and virginity, and because some cultures still put a high value on the pain and discomfort of women as something good. Hymenoplasty -- the "restoration" of the hymen, a piece of tissue which women do not need, and which offers them no sexual benefits will cause a woman to have pain and bleeding afterwards when intercourse occurs. I am not going to go into the way the procedure is done because a) it sickens me and b) this is outside our scope.

Many women who have not had vaginal intercourse do not have fully intact hymens: the hymen wears away, over time, due to a number of factors, not merely intercourse. For those who have fully intact hymens -- a rarity -- at first intercourse, intercourse is painful if not impossible. So, if you have the idea that all women who have not had vaginal intercourse have a fully intact hymen, you're quite mistaken.
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I have a question Heather about that if you don't mind. Hope its okay if I post it there. I know this isn't a subject you particularly like, me neither, but I'm a little curious about something.

I agree 100 % with you but I was wondering if hymenoplasty restore the entire hymen, if it gives a woman an intact hymen or a partial hymen. To me, the answer would be an intact hymen since most people often associate virginity with intact hymen although it doesn't really exist except for a few exceptions who will need a small surgery.

But how can a women menstruate with that restored hymen (if it is intact) if there's no hole in it ? I mean unless she's getting her hymenoplasty right before she has sex or few weeks before that, the hymen seems to occasionnate a problem per menstrual flow no ? Or it will break and not stay intact? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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It's not pleasurable at all for the women.

The women who do it either due because of cultural pressures in certain areas to have to bleed at first intercourse/marriage (and some of those cultural pressures literally can endanger their lives if it is thought they are not virgins, no matter how misinformed it is to base that on bleeding), or because someone's husband/pboyfriend fetishizes antiquated ideas about hymens and virginity.

So, no, for thw women it is not exciting. But some men fetishize this, and to them -- no matter that it causes women pain and discomfort -- it is exciting.

Which is why I'd prefer not to even talk about this, because like anything else where women's suffering is a turn-on for someone, as a woman, as an advocate for women, it tends to result in making me terribly sad and angry.
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The attitude of treating woman as an object of sexual pleasure or as object in other means may result in various means of abuse. However, I think there are other reasons why a lot of people fancy the virginity concept and obsess about hymen. It is also not necessarily because of the feeling to own woman, in fact most guys ( at least in Asia ) don’t really understand why it is hard for them to accept woman that is no longer virgin. They call the non-virgin woman “been used” or “secondhand”, deep inside their mind they feel non-virgin woman is not as valuable as before when she was still virgin. I think this kind of mind is flawed, in any sexual activities including sexual intercourse, when it is enjoyable by the two without any pressure, both the woman and the man, no one is being used. Woman is passively active, and man is actively passive, none of them really passive or active. Hence, to be fair, non-virgin man also eligible to be called “been used” or “secondhand”

They are guys that treat woman as object, and they have a great satisfaction when having sexual intercourse with virgin woman and after that they dump the woman, they have this feeling of marking woman (something very similar with ownership), and they take proud of breaking a woman’s hymen. This feeling of marking woman also doesn’t make sense. I used to understand that kind of feelings, but since I have thought out this matter carefully, asking a lot of why, suddenly now I lost that feelings, I don’t understand it, weird. Maybe a lot of guys fancy virginity concept because they don’t really think and analyze their feelings, instead they let themselves become the victims of social conditioning. Hymen is really nothing to be adored of, if hymen will give so much pain to a woman, it is even better to remove the hymen surgically when she was born. When a female reach adult age, it is natural to have a sexual desire, and to have a sexual intercourse is her basic right, just like eating or peeing, and hymen could be just like an “obstacle” in a sexual intercourse for her(while not necessarily so). Why a man that have slept with a lot woman is highly respected while a woman that have slept with a lot of man is highly condemned while it is the exactly the same equal basic right for man and woman to fulfill their sexual drive?

And the media; newspaper, television, magazines, etc (at least again here in Asia), boosting up the virginity concept, influencing a lot of people, males and females to think that virginity (hymen related or not) is a super sacred matters. The act of making love itself is sacred but not the organs that we have. A lot of females here in Asia also “think” too much of their virginity and make sacred their hymen, a lot of women here once they are not virgin anymore, they tend to be too clingy and attached toward their partner, although they actually know that their partner is very abusive and no good to them, this situation is quite pathetic I guess.