One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

The hymen is, in essence, a fragile membrane that more or less completely covers the entrance to the vagina in most female human beings who have not had sex relations.

It is also important to realize that many girls are born without a hymen or at most only a tiny trace of one ; ;

so that the absence of the hymen is by no means positive proof that a girl has had sex relations.

More rarely, the hymen is so sturdy that it does not yield to penetration.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

It also includes hymenotomy, the removal of a hymen regarded as too thick, and gishiri cutting, a practice in which the vagina's anterior wall is cut with a knife to enlarge it.

The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν ( hymen ): membrane and πτερόν ( pteron ): wing.

The hymen is a membrane of tissue that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening.

A vaginal obstruction is often caused by an imperforate hymen or, less commonly, a transverse vaginal septum.

* the hymen that is neither confusion nor distinction, neither identity nor difference, neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiled, neither inside nor the outside, etc.

the hymen is neither confusion nor distinction, neither identity nor difference, neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiled, neither inside nor the outside, etc.

In rare cases where imperforate hymen does not resolve itself prior to the first menstrual cycle and goes undetected, blood and endometrium are trapped within the uterus of the patient until such time as the problem is resolved by surgical incision.

Hymenotomy is the surgical perforation of an imperforate hymen.

The newly-created hymen is created to cause physical resistance, blood, or the appearance of blood, at the time that the individual's new husband inserts his penis into her vagina.

The hymen is a membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening.

In children, although a common appearance of the hymen is crescent-shaped, many shapes are possible.

If the hymen is sufficiently elastic, it may return to nearly its original condition.

For these reasons, it is not possible to definitively determine whether or not a girl or woman is a virgin by examining her hymen.

The genital tract develops during embryogenesis, from the third week of gestation to the second trimester, and the hymen is formed following the vagina.

At month 5, the vaginal canalization is complete and the fetal hymen is formed from the proliferation of the sinovaginal bulbs ( where müllerian ducts meet the urogenital sinus ), and becomes perforate before or shortly after birth.

In newborn babies, still under the influence of the mother's hormones, the hymen is thick, pale pink, and redundant ( folds in on itself and may protrude ).

It is also very sensitive to touch ; a physician who must swab the area should avoid the hymen and swab the outer vulval vestibule instead.

By the time a girl reaches school age, the hymen becomes thin, smooth, delicate, and nearly translucent.

Many women possess such thin, fragile hymens, easily stretched and already perforated at birth, that the hymen can be broken in childhood without the girl even being aware of it, often through athletic activities.

About 1986, in one of her more remarkable performances, Aizome had her hymen surgically restored so that it could be broken during the film.

The forensic physician, a Captain in the Russian military medical service, found three tears in her hymen and one in the mucous membrane of her rectum, and the report concludes that she was penetrated anally and vaginally by a blunt object after death.

One example is a slip while riding a bicycle may on occasion result in the bicycle's saddle-horn entering the introitus just far enough to break the hymen.

Extreme cases are on record in which the doctor has had to use instruments to cut through the hymen to permit marital relations to be consummated.

This has traditionally been tested by the presence of an intact hymen, which was verified by either a physical examination ( usually by a physician, who provided a certificate of virginity ) or by a " proof of blood ," which refers to vaginal bleeding that results from the tearing of the hymen after the first sanctioned sexual contact.

The scatological and sexual elements prevail during the narration: there are descriptions of a ménage à trois ; an episode in which Rampin gets covered from head to foot in excrement after falling in a latrine ; and other uninhibited allusions to the reconstruction of hymen, and procreation.

The CD reissue adds several previously unreleased routines, including a sketch about Derek ( Moore ) cutting his wife's hymen out with an electric carving knife, and one of their most popular sketches amongst their fans, ' Mother ', in which Moore plays Cooks hysterical, domineering, deranged mother.

Ta-Bitjet is a scorpion goddess and the blood that flowed from when Horus ruptured her hymen can serve as a panacea for all poisons.

It has been variously proposed that it began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility or fertility, as a means of enhancing sexual pleasure, as an aid to hygiene where regular bathing was impractical, as a means of marking those of higher social status, as a means of humiliating enemies and slaves by symbolic castration, as a means of differentiating a circumcising group from their non-circumcising neighbors, as a means of discouraging masturbation or other socially proscribed sexual behaviors, as a means of removing " excess " pleasure, as a means of increasing a man's attractiveness to women, as a demonstration of one's ability to endure pain, or as a male counterpart to menstruation or the breaking of the hymen, or to copy the rare natural occurrence of a missing foreskin of an important leader, and as a display of disgust of the smegma produced by the foreskin.

In an article on the procedure, Aizome told Shukan Bunshun, " They strung a thread almost like a piano wire through the entrance to my vagina and pulled it like a drawstring to recreate the hymen.

The insistent, forceful penetration may tear and inflame the vaginal walls as well as do excessive damage to the hymen.

Hymenorrhaphy refers to the practice of thickening the hymen, or, in some cases, implanting a capsule of red liquid within the newly-created vaginal tissue.

Various types of hymen ( the dark areas represent the vaginal opening )

Some females who have been previously sexually active ( or their hymen has been otherwise damaged ) may undergo a surgical procedure, called hymenorrhaphy or hymenoplasty, to repair or replace her hymen, and cause vaginal bleeding on the next intercourse as proof of virginity ( see below ).

It is likely that almost all women are born with a hymen, but not necessarily ones that will experience a measurable change during first experience of vaginal intercourse.

* fear of pain associated with penetration, particularly the popular misconception of " breaking " the hymen upon the first attempt at penetration, or the idea that vaginal penetration will inevitably hurt the first time it occurs

In situations where the opening is extremely small or the band ( s ) of a septate hymen limit access to the vaginal opening, the individual may elect for hymenotomy to allow for comfortable sexual penetration of her vagina, or to relieve pain or discomfort that occurs when inserting / removing tampons.

Specifically the endometrium is shed, but a congenital obstruction such as a vaginal septum or on part of the hymen retains the menstrual flow.