In the rare cases that the hymen does cover the entire vaginal opening, it's called an imperforate hymen.
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Hymen exams are sometimes used in some countries as a requirement for marriage, but not every girl is born with a hymen and the presence or absence of a hymen does not indicate virginity, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Your partner's fingers might have stretched your hymen, Gupta says.
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However, there are both many ways for a woman to break her hymen — such as bicycle riding or exercise — and many ways for a hymen to be shaped, including a barely there fringe of tissue.
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I'd written a piece about the breaking your hymen, virginity thing.
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Some people with vaginas are born without a hymen at all.
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We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.
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Hymens are often misunderstood, so here's the deal: The hymen is the thin membrane that surrounds the entrance to the vagina and normally has a crescent shaped hole, though hymen shapes and types are very diverse.
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The idea of "testing" a person's hymen for evidence of sexual activity has been a topic of widespread public discussion since the rapper T.I. said he has a doctor check his daughter's hymen once a year.
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Medically speaking, however, the concept of an 'intact' hymen is a myth.
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You're giving away your vote; you're not giving away your fucking hymen.
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If possible, the remains of the actual hymen are used for the operation.
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The hymen is the thin membrane that covers the opening of the vagina.
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It found a rising number of U.S. patients wanted tests or hymen restoration surgery.
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The hymen is a thin membrane that partly covers the entrance to the vagina.
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Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil-and-eraser on this day in 1858.
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The reason for the pardon, Bevin said, is that the girl's hymen was intact.
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"If being a virgin means that a [person] has an intact hymen, the ring of tissue that circles the opening of the vagina, then using dildos (or even tampons) can stretch or rupture the hymen and the answer is yes," Wilson told INSIDER.
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But experts say that an intact hymen is in no way evidence that a child has not been raped; one study found that just over 2 percent of survivors in child rape cases had visible damage to the hymen, the Courier Journal reports.
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How do we move to an idea of virginity that is not just about hymen?
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First, that you can tell if a woman is a virgin by probing her hymen.
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There's no medical evidence that examining the hymen tells a doctor anything about sexual history.
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Specifically, he justified the pardon by saying that the girl&aposs hymen was still intact.
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And there are no standard procedures for hymen reconstruction—so far, doctors have been teaching themselves.
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Why not just make a hymen out of crystallised sugar and get straight to the point.
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Being sexually inactive doesn't ensure your hymen is intactWhen Deyjah's gynecologist told T.I. there are other ways a woman's hymen can break outside of sex like bike riding, horseback riding, and general physical activity or sports, he told the doctor he was aware of these factors.
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"A hymen is a thin tissue that stretches over the opening of some people's vaginas," she says.
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I was confident in my understanding of both the hymen and feminism, so I didn't care anymore.
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Some people think you can tell if someone's had sex before if their hymen is stretched open.
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It's possible for a woman to be without a hymen and still to have never had sex.
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Typically the hymen wears down as we age from physical activities, masturbation, or even just hormonal changes.
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But experts say that the absence of a hymen does not mean someone has been sexually active.
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Other people never feel any pain with penetrative sex, either because their hymen has already been stretched, because they never had much hymenal tissue to begin with, or because their hymen is so flexible that it just moves aside to make room for a penis, fingers, or sex toy.
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"He relieved me of the burden of my hymen," Fisher joked, as the two reminisced about the moment.
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Along with being stretchy, for the vast majority of people, the hymen doesn't completely cover the vaginal opening.
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There is still a high value placed on virginity in China, and women still undergo hymen-restoration surgery.
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Yes, I go with her ... I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.
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So what someone's hymen looks like is by no means an indication of whether or not they've had sex.
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Say it with us: YOU CAN'T TELL IF SOMEONE'S HAD SEX BY THE WAY THEIR HYMEN LOOKS OR FEELS.
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Rapper T.I. says that he takes his daughter to the gynecologist to make sure her hymen is still intact!
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Few women use them because they're (mistakenly) afraid a tampon might break their hymen and thus compromise their virginity.
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Haddish found solace with girlfriends who had also been sexually assaulted, and tried to imagine her hymen growing back.
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" He later said about his daughter, "I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.
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The hymen is a thin layer of tissue located near the vaginal opening, with a hole in the center.
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There are a lot of misconceptions about the hymen, which is also called the vaginal corona, or just the corona.
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They preach inclusivity and redefine the word virgin to describe a woman whose morality is intact, rather than her hymen.
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She just sat there on the bathroom floor, jabbing herself with the tampon, and broke her hymen in the process.
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" The group added: "Some people think you can tell if someone's had sex before if their hymen is stretched open.
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He also reportedly noted on the podcast that he knew the hymen could be broken in ways other than sex.
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The hymen is the baby teeth of the vagina, as Jen Gunter, an OB-GYN who's incredibly online, succinctly tweeted.
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According to the rapper and common thinking, an intact hymen signals a woman has likely never had penetrative sex before.
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A very common misconception is that the hymen is a kind of barrier that "breaks" during intercourse and causes bleeding.
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And by that, she means getting a hymen reconstruction to convince her husband she's a virgin on their wedding night.
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"Not only have we had the conversation — we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen," he said.
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The importance of keeping your hymen intact and remaining a virgin until marriage was drummed into her from a young age.
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That&aposs because before a person ever has sex, their vaginal opening is covered with a thin membrane called the hymen.
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Still, that doesn&apost mean the vaginal canal is any bigger or looser than it was before the hymen was broken.
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Legislation was introduced after the rapper said he subjects his daughter to a yearly hymen exam, sparking outrage on social media.
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And, as the Kentucky medical examiner noted, the presence of a hymen does not prove that someone was never sexually assaulted.
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The world they describe is a world of hypocrisy, where appearance and reality clash constantly, where sex is a source of shame but on everybody's mind, where the cult of virginity — demanded only of women — leads veiled girls to favor sodomy and oral sex to keep their hymen intact or to pay for hymen reparation before getting married.
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"The hymen is a thin membrane that partially covers the entrance of the vagina," sex educator and trauma specialist Jimanekia Eborn explains.
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Some people are born with more hymenal tissue than others — and some people with vaginas are born without a hymen at all.
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She said her friend told her he stuck his fingers in her vagina "to examine her" and commented on her "hard" hymen.
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Many believe that using tampons can break a woman's hymen, so they are never mentioned in Chinese sex-education classes, reported Quartz.
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And ever since, you've always had some vague idea that a hymen is this thing inside your vagina that polices your virginity.
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So-called "virginity tests" usually examine the hymen, a membrane inside the vagina, to see whether it has been ruptured or torn.
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He explained exactly why -- anatomically-speaking -- T.I. would be highly disappointed to know the hymen doesn't guarantee what he thinks it does.
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"Sometimes the doctor just writes, 'The hymen is not broken, but it is possible that it was anal penetration,'" Dr. Sobhrang said.
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The vagina, the cervix, the anterior vaginal wall [aka the G-spot], the clitoris, the labia, the hymen—these are sexual things.
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Partnering with New York State Senator Roxanne Persaud, her bill would make hymen examinations a class D felony under New York law.
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You've probably heard of the hymen, a membrane that partially covers the vaginal opening, and the myths about how it "breaks" during intercourse.
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The hymen doesn't necessarily break during sex, which is why there may not be any blood even if a woman has undergone reconstructive surgery.
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And "popping" your hymen during masturbation, fingering, or any other activity that you don't feel was sexual, doesn't mean that you've lost your virginity.
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But you're in law school and and you wear makeup'... I can possess a hymen and still know how to do a cat eye!
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Still, many doctors and clergy worried the tampon would become a masturbatory aid, or even tear the hymen and rob women of their virginities.
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Hi. It's extremely abusive to police your daughter's hymen and any doctor who would participate in such an act needs to lose their license.
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Some women, however, may be born without a hymen, and the membrane can also rupture or stretch from activities like sports or using a tampon.
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That said, there are a very small percentage of hymen owners whose hymens are resistant to wearing away, and this may require a doctor's attention.
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There are two main reasons people with vaginas might bleed after their first time having P-in-V sex: tearing the hymen and lack of lubrication.
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The idea that the penis must pierce through the hymen to enter the vagina is wrong, and reminiscent of a more patriarchal view of sexual intercourse.
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But Dr. Sobhrang, a gynecologist, said the tests had often been scientifically questioned because the status of the hymen is not just determined by sexual intercourse.
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A hymen can be broken in a number of ways besides intercourse, some girls are born without hymens, and hymens can even remain intact after intercourse.
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When someone has an "imperforate hymen," Minkin says, it means that the membrane is abnormally thick or tight, which can make sex very painful or even impossible.
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Hymen reconstruction surgery—or hymenoplasty, as it's known in medical jargon—can be performed in an outpatient setting and takes a little less than half an hour.
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Girls are often warned against using a tampon or menstrual cup over fears they could break their hymen - a source of shame in some socially conservative countries.
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The hymen is elastic, and hymenal tissue usually erodes when a person is young because of numerous physical activities like horseback riding, yoga, gymnastics, and, yes, sex.
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In this ritual, a female specialist—a juntaora—inserts a handkerchief into the women's vagina, breaking the hymen, and collecting smears of blood to prove her virginity.
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This can be done under local anesthetic, and I'd recommend the patient waits at least three days before having sex to allow the new hymen to set.
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Some people have thicker layers of tissue than others, and some have layers so small that it seems they have no hymen at all, according to Planned Parenthood.
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What he pushed his fingers against that day, when she was a 25-year-old theater student, was not her hymen; it was her G spot, she wrote.
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T.I.'s understanding of how sex works sounds like it's stuck somewhere in sixth grade, when the myth that the hymen is a poppable cherry is more pervasive.
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During a recent episode of the podcast Ladies Like Us, T.I. said he accompanies his daughter Deyjah to yearly gynecological exams to make sure her hymen is still intact.
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Her version is superbly dramatized and, with its cast of spineless lovers and hymen-breaking villainesses, a very Iranian tale, every scene designed to stir up fury or longing.
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In fact, research has found that around one in every thousand women are born without a hymen, while nearly half of women don't bleed when they first have sex.
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However, Dr Musyafak, the chief medical officer of Jakarta's metropolitan police, says that the new tests still involve a doctor examining the cadet to see if her hymen is intact.
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In the interview, T.I. recalled that during the appointment a doctor said he needed such permission to learn about his daughter's hymen and that he told her to provide it.
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There are other explanations, though, for why a woman may not have a hymen and the absence of one doesn't indicate a woman has never had sex, Insider previously reported.
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The family has sent a letter to the ministry to protest her dismissal alongside a medical report that showed her hymen was intact, their lawyer Imam Muklas said by phone.
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But his claim that an intact hymen means no assault occurred is completely wrong, Dr. George Nichols, former chief medical examiner for the state of Kentucky, told the Courier Journal.
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She thinks herself — and proclaims herself — "free" and able to "do whatever I want," but the cost of her spirited wandering is a hymen-restoring operation imposed by her family.
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He claimed that a young girl could not have been raped by a man he freed because her hymen was intact — an assertion experts rejected as proof of the man's innocence.
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To say nothing of the fact that, as doctors will tell you, the absence of an intact hymen is simply not an adequate indicator that a person has had vaginal intercourse.
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New York state lawmakers are considering banning "virginity testing," in the wake of T.I.&aposs admission that he accompanied his daughter to gynecology appointments to check if her hymen was intact.
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It does seem like awkward laughter ... but, still, they feel they reacted TERRIBLY to T.I. saying he sits in on his daughter Deyjah Harris' gyno visits to confirm her hymen is intact.
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If you do experience pain or bleeding, it might be because the hymen (a thin membrane near the vaginal opening) hasn't worn away that much yet and may have stretched during penetration.
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Lily and Mia are trapped by the motel manager in a form of indentured servitude, and Lily is so desperate in her relationship with Jian that she submits to hymen-reconstruction surgery.
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That was months after President Ashraf Ghani had promised rights activists that forensic virginity tests — an invasive examination to check whether the hymen is intact — would be abolished as an official procedure.
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And while certain descriptions of the hymen make it sound like a solid tissue that you can "break" — like the Kool-Aid man bursting through a wall — that's really not how it works.
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Bob the Drag Queen was at Manhattan's Ace Hotel with fellow queen Tora Hymen, sitting next to a queen dressed as Hillary Clinton; directly behind him sat a queen dressed like Donald Trump.
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In response to the idea that this hymen-checking might be an incredibly misguided and even harmful idea, T.I. scoffed: It's horrific to have to live this interaction down in the first place.
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To be totally clear (and T.I., I'm talking to you, pal): The hymen doesn't pop, nor does it break or go away as a result of having penetrative sex for the first time.
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Scientists have debunked the notion that inspecting an alleged victim's hymen can prove if they were sexually assaulted, and found that most survivors of child sexual abuse do not have any physical damage.
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But that's not guaranteed—the hymen is a thin membrane that only partially closes the opening to the vagina, and the extent to which it actually performs this function depends on the individual woman.
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Having been a gymnast since I was a toddler, I was sure my hymen was no longer intact, but since hymens aren't reliable ways to gage "virginity," that didn't matter much to begin with.
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The rapper and actor T.I. prompted widespread outrage after revealing on a podcast that he has accompanied his daughter, now 18, to a yearly doctor's appointment to ensure that her hymen is still intact.
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New York state is considering a ban on "virginity tests" after rapper T.I. said he takes his 18-year-old daughter to the gynecologist each year to check that she still has her hymen.
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Many gynecologists have not only debunked "virginity tests" by saying the hymen has no relation to whether someone is sexually active, but have also said these "tests" are a violation of a woman's body.
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Your hymen will gradually wear away over your whole life, for a whole bunch of reasons: everything from your hormones changing to period blood leaving your body to masturbation to physical activity to, yes, sex.
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She told me that almost no one her age uses tampons (or any insertable menstrual products), so I made a makeshift hymen using a toilet paper roll and some tissue paper and we discussed virginity.
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Planned Parenthood on Wednesday hit back at T.I. after the rapper and actor said he goes with his daughter to the gynecologist every year to "check her hymen" to make sure she's still a virgin.
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I've heard of so many cases of people opting for cheap, illegal procedures that lead to horrible infections that sometimes create a layer of fake hymen tissue that is impossible to break by having sex.
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The hymen naturally breaks once the vagina is penetrated (whether from sex or something else like a tampon or even playing sports), making it easier for a penis or other object to enter the vagina.
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It's the subject of Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen, a collection of essays that peers into the messy, tangled world of virginity via examinations of Twilight, True Blood, Tahrir Square activism, and Bollywood.
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In the test, which is often called a "two-finger" test, the doctor does an internal vaginal exam to feel the hymen, a thin membrane that some cultures believe remains intact until women have sexual intercourse.
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Sex can change the hymen, but so can riding a horse or inserting a tampon, so it's not truly connected to virginity, says Heather Bartos, MD, a Texas ob/gyn and the founder of MindShift Medicine.
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Last month, the rapper T.I. made some beyond controversial comments about going to the ob/gyn with his daughter at one point to ensure that her hymen was "intact," which he said he believed confirmed her virginity.
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If you do experience bleeding during sex, it's most likely not the hymen at all, but a result of not being relaxed or aroused or lubricated enough, or having a partner that's a little too zealous or rough.
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Still, Bevin, a Republican, further enraged critics when he said during a radio interview Thursday with WHAS in Louisville that he pardoned a child rapist partly because the hymen of the 9-year-old victim was still intact.
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New York state lawmakers are weighing a ban on "virginity testing" after the rapper T.I. sparked an uproar by announcing that he accompanied his teenage daughter to annual gynecology appointments to check if her hymen was still intact.
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"I said, &aposLook doc, she don&apost ride no horses, she don&apost ride no bike, she don&apost play no sports, man, just check the hymen please and give me back my results expeditiously," he said, laughing.
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" The laws come after rapper T.I. received widespread criticism earlier this month for a recent interview in which he claimed he takes his 18-year-old daughter to the gynecologist on a yearly basis to "check her hymen.
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During a recent episode of the podcast Ladies Like Us, T.I. said he accompanies his daughter Deyjah to yearly gynecological exams to make sure her hymen, the thin membrane that covers the opening of the vagina, is still intact.
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While on "Red Table Talk," TI defended his decision to accompany his teenage daughter Deyjah to the gynecologist to make sure her hymen was still intact — which sparked a significant amount of backlash after he spoke about it recently.
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Several magazines and newspapers reported at the time that the soon-to-be Princess Di was examined by Dr. Pinker, surgeon-gynecologist to the Queen, to ensure that she had an intact hymen (which, btw, isn't always a sign of virginity).
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Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), the baby vampire who gets "turned" by Bill when she's only 103, is condemned to be a perpetual virgin; because vampire blood has magical healing properties, her hymen grows back after every single time she has sex.
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They write to vent about how to "get rid of this burden of virginity," or to ask about hymen reconstruction surgery if they're planning to marry someone who doesn't know their sexual history, or just to share their thoughts about sex.
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The rapper recently made the revelation on the podcast "Ladies Like Us," saying he's been taking Deyjah Harris to the gyno for years now, and sits in for the results with the intent of confirming her hymen has not been broken.
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We got Oz Thursday outside NBC's 30 Rock studios, where he gave us a medical take on T.I. saying he's been taking his now 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah, to the gynecologist for years ... to make sure her hymen is intact.
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Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin defended his decision during his last days in office to pardon a man convicted of raping a 9-year-old girl and continuing to sexually abuse her for two years because the victim's hymen was intact.
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It wasn't until she agreed to visit a Persian gynecologist to get her hymen checked out that her mother began speaking to her again—and only because the doctor promised to tell her mom that Becca was a virgin (which she was).
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"And so then they come and say, 'Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding, and just other forms of athletic physical activity,'" he said.
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"And so then they come and say, 'Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding and just other forms of athletic physical activity,'" T.I. said.
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According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the hymen can indeed be stretched or torn during vaginal intercourse, but using tampons or finger play during masturbation or intimate moments with a partner can also lead the delicate membrane to tear.
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Story at a glance In response to comments made by celebrity T.I., New York State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages introduced a ban on hymen exams for the purposes of verifying if a female is a virgin, or if she has had sexual intercourse.
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Through the first season and into the second, Tracey's hymen — a frequent reference point in the show's dialogue — remains intact despite multiple boyfriends (one gay), attempted threesomes, an inappropriately friendly cousin (named Boy Tracey) and a visit to an underground sex club.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — State lawmakers are considering barring doctors from performing so-called virginity testing, after widespread backlash followed the rapper T.I.'s recent disclosure that he takes his daughter to see a gynecologist every year to ensure that her hymen is still intact.
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"So then they come and say, 'Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken, like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding, and just other forms of athletic physical activity,'" he said.
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For the girl who survived the mob attack in Kabul last July and was arrested and ordered to be examined, the test at the forensic medical center showed that her hymen was still intact, according to records at the center seen by The Times.
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One girl in northern Jowzjan Province who had run away with a young man was arrested and sent to the hospital for an examination, which showed that her hymen had been damaged, said Humaira Qarizada, the manager of the aid group Women for Afghan Women in Jowzjan.
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" Its instructions, Trites noted, "include information about having a vaginal exam, how to get birth control, the anatomy of the penis, condom usage, information about premature ejaculation, venereal disease, impotence, sexual relations during menstruation, the breaking of the hymen, premarital pregnancy, and play-by-play directions for having intercourse.
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Say it with us: YOUCAN'TTELLIFSOMEONE'SHADSEXBYTHEWAYTHEIRHYMENLOOKSORFEELS The Twitter thread comes after T.I. said in a podcast interview that aired Tuesday that he goes with his 18-year-old daughter to the gynecologist to make sure her hymen is "still intact," adding that "as of her 18th birthday," it was.
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Some people who have vulvas naturally have more hymenal tissue than others, according to Planned Parenthood, so penetrative sex — meaning penis-in-vagina sex, fingering, or using an internal sex toy like a dildo or strap-on — might be more painful for them than others because it can stretch the hymen.
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" They also noted in the study that while "at least two studies dating back to the 1980s and 85033s have reported hymens to be present in all newborn girls examined [1,131 cases in one study and 134 in another], there are documented cases of girls born without a hymen altogether.
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In addition to actually having a hymen herself, the Xscape singer also has two daughters, a 23-year-old named Zonnique and a super adorable toddler named Heiress — it wouldn't be a stretch to say that she has her own differing opinion, as a woman and mother, about her husband's comments.
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If compelling one's teen daughter to sign a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) waiver so that he can have access to the results of a gynecological exam checking her hymen (as T.I. told the podcast hosts he has done) is not abuse disguised as love, I'm not sure what it is.
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Vaginas might bleed after having any kind of sex that involves vaginal penetration — such as being fingered or using a sex toy — for similar reasons as bleeding after P-in-V sex: the hymen gets stretched or torn, the fingers or toy cause an abrasion or small cut, or one of the health conditions mentioned above.
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Activists like Jayshree Bajoria, a consultant with Human Rights Watch, say survivors continue to encounter hostile police personnel unwilling to register complaints and still experience use of "two-finger" tests -- a practice done to note the presence or absence of the hymen and the size and apparent laxity of the vagina -- by medical professionals during examinations for evidence collection, despite critiques of its medical validity.
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The rapper and his wife, Tiny, sat down with Jada, and her mom Adrienne, for a 'Red Table Talk' Monday to chat about what T.I. dished on the "Ladies Like Us" podcast a couple weeks ago, where he said he tags along with his now 18-year-old, Deyjah, to the gynecologist each year ... supposedly for the sole purpose of ensuring her hymen isn't broken.
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Read more:An Oregon town couldn&apost afford to hire cops for the night shift, so it proposed installing security cameras manned by volunteers who can identify &aposhardcore criminals&apos just by looking at themNew York is considering a ban on &aposvirginity tests&apos after T.I. said he took his daughter to the gynecologist for hymen checksA New Jersey woman meeting a man from the internet texted him asking, &aposYou&aposre not a serial killer, right?
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Read more:A bear got stuck in a tree over a tiger enclosure and refused to climb down for 5 daysA man killed a Chicago college student after she ignored his catcalls, prosecutors sayLawyers for the guards accused of napping the night Jeffrey Epstein died say their clients are being unfairly blamed for the jail&aposs dysfunctionNew York is considering a ban on &aposvirginity tests&apos after T.I. said he took his daughter to the gynecologist for hymen checks
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