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So it essentially reconstructs a ruptured hymen, allowing her to bleed upon having sexual intercourse, to simulate the loss of virginity.
It tells us that the hymen breaks and bleeds the first time a woman has vaginal sex.
Since the hymen is thought to break and bleed, people also believe that it actually disappears or is in some way radically altered during a woman's first intercourse.
The myths about the hymen have lived on for centuries because they have cultural significance.
Women are so afraid not to live up to the myths about the hymen that they choose to use different virginity quick fixes to assure a bleeding.
It's time we break the myths about the hymen once and for all.
And in our experience, people seem to believe that the hymen is some kind of a seal covering the vaginal opening.
NDB: But the hymen is nothing like a piece of plastic you can wrap around your food, or a seal.
The hymen is a rim of tissue at the outer opening of the vagina.
ESD: Now that we know a bit more about the hymen's anatomy, it's time to get back to our two myths: virgins bleed, hymens are lost forever.
But the hymen doesn't have to break at all.
The hymen is like a scrunchie in function as well as in looks.
You can stretch a hymen, too.
And for a lot of women, the hymen will be elastic enough to handle a vaginal intercourse without sustaining any damage.
For other women, the hymen may tear a bit to make room for the penis, but that won't make it disappear.
It naturally follows that you can't examine the hymen to check for virginity status.
Because if her hymen was never damaged during sex, then what were we expecting to see? ESD: Since hymens come in every shape and form, it is difficult to know if a dent or a fold in it is there because of previous damage or if it's just a normal anatomical variant.
NDB: Like most myths, the myths about the hymen are untrue.
Sexual oppression of women comes from something much deeper than a simple anatomical misunderstanding about the properties of the hymen.
We want every girl, parent and [future] husband to know what the hymen is and how it works.
We want them to know that the hymen can't be used as a proof of virginity.
After telling you this, you may wonder what the alternative is, for if we cannot use the hymen as a proof of virginity for women, then what should we use?
When Mary Elizabeth gets pregnant, her stressed and abusive sister Catherine (Denise Crosby) does not believe that she is virgin, but their father and former obstetrician Albert Martino (James Callahan) examines his daughter and sees her intact hymen.