Hi men and women,
In a world where the total population shows that we have more women than men and female gender mutilation, sexual violence are increasing daily, one needs to pay apt attention to the concerns of the female folks. There are a lot of misconceptions among male folks about women, their sexualities, and their strength. Many of these misconceptions registered in minds due to lack of adequate information about issues concerning women
A great deal of folklore surrounds the subjects of the hymen. The hymen is a ring of soft tissue just inside the Labia minora. If you're a virgin, you cannot see your hymen without spreading the Labia minora apart. Even then your vagina will look almost totally closed because of the hymen. If a woman has a tight hymen, the first time she has intercourse the hymen will tear and she will often bleed.
Occasionally, the hymen may be so thick that it requires a surgical incision to allow intercourse this is normal but uncommon. Normally at first intercourse, the hymen dilates (opens) by being both stretched and torn along its edge at several different points.
THE MYTH ABOUT FEMALE VIRGINITY
VIRGINITY, We were discussing females' virginity yesterday and someone was like the only way to know if a girl is a virgin or not is that it's a must every girl bleeds during her first sex, and am sure the majority have the same mindset but this is wrong. Bleeding doesn't determine if a girl is a virgin or not so I decided to release this article to help educate our young men and women on this issue of girls
MUST THERE BE BLEEDING DURING THE FIRST SEX?
Why most women won't bleed the first time they have sex. There's a very common myth in South and Central Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, etc.) and Africa (Nigeria and many other nations ) that you can tell if a woman is a virgin, by whether or not she bleeds the first time she has sex. There is zero truth in this. Not all women bleed the first time they have sex, In case you didn't read that let me write it again this time in upper case letters.
I'll explain in this post. To understand why some women bleed and some don't, it's very important to understand what the hymen is. The hymen is a membrane that tends to cover part of the vaginal opening (it does not always block or cover the entire vagina, as some people mistakenly think).
NOT ALL WOMEN HAVE A HYMEN.
The hymen also differs from woman to woman - like all women have different heights and weights and features, all women also have different amounts and types of hymen. Some women have thick hymens, some have very thin hymens, and some women have no hymens at all. Some women have larger hymens, some women naturally have a very little amount of hymen that covers only a small portion of their vaginal opening (and hence does not get in the way, during the first time of having sex). In addition to this, the hymen wears away on their own as you grow up.
For most women, the hymen wears away on its own with exercise, bicycling, horseback riding. It can wear off with pretty much any other physical activity, even dancing or from using tampons when menstruating. Especially if the hymen is very small or thin, most of it tends to wear away on its own as a girl grows up.
If a woman was born WITHOUT a hymen, she won't bleed the first time she has sex. If a woman has a small or thin hymen, she might not bleed the first time she has sex. If a woman's hymen has worn away on its own
(which is very common as girls grow up), she won't bleed the first time she has sex. The result is that the overwhelming majority, at least 63% of women will not bleed the first time they have sex,
According to a study published by the British Medical Journal. Women who do bleed include Women with thick hymens (who constitute a small percentage of the population), younger girls. Because the hymen wears away on its own with time, a 16-year old has a higher chance of bleeding than a 25-year old. By the time a girl is of or above the legal age of consent (18, 20, 24 years). For example, most of her hymen is likely to have worn away on its own, meaning it is unlikely that she will bleed a lot, if at all. However, even a young girl can be physically active, have a thin or small hymen, or have no hymen at all, meaning she might not bleed during first time of having coitus) Most often, women who bleed tend to be women who are dealt with roughly during sex. If the guy forces himself on the girl, when she isn't ready, relaxed or aroused enough, he is likely to cause injury or bleeding. Because most people think it's normal for women to bleed the first time they have sex, they don't realize that this bleeding is a result of the woman having been hurt, and not of the hymen breaking Painful first-time sex is generally because the woman is not relaxed or aroused enough, and gets hurt as a result; it is rarely ever because of the hymen breaking.
The bottom line is that there is no way to assess female virginity. Bleeding does not have anything to do with virginity. It has to do with the kind of hymen a girl has, and hymens differ from girl to girl from birth. The result is that only a small percentage of women bleed the first time! (Only 37% bleed during first sexual intercourse, according to the study published in the British Medical Journal.)
Why is this so important to be aware of this?
Women all over the world get abused, injured and even killed due to the myth of virgin bleeding. This is because most people (men and women) think that bleeding is a sign of virginity, women who don't bleed the first time have been divorced, suffered from suspicion leading to domestic violence and abuse, and even killed for honour. Educating people that a girl does not necessarily have to bleed the first time she has sex - because not all girls have thick hymens, and some are born with no hymen at all - is important because it can literally save lives.
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