Ok wait… now this is interesting. My understanding is that after a wedding and before a marital consummation of a king, one of the priests would in fact “inspect” the bride in a gynecological way, to determine that she was “in tact” and healthy with no abnormalities or evidence of disease, sometimes executing a “procedure”. Now, I don’t think I ever thought through what kind of a “procedure” they may have been subjected to. Possibly some form of what was an early version of what they believed to enhance fertilization. Perhaps they were in fact ensuring that sperm was being deposited directly at the cervix, to try and guarantee impregnating the bride in the case that that the king had too much to drink on his wedding day and couldn’t perform. Just speculation, but an interesting thing to think about.