{"id":27499,"date":"2022-04-21T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=27499"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:08:37","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-virginity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/theres-no-such-thing-as-virginity\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Such Thing as Virginity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HuffPo-.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HuffPo-.png 800w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HuffPo--300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HuffPo--768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; at least as we know it now. According to science, the female hymen is not a good detector of whether a woman has had sex before, so we should really stop considering &#8220;breaking&#8221; the hymen to be the moment of lost virginity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20220419-how-the-hymen-myth-destroys-lives\">Via BBC:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Many people erroneously believe that the hymen seals over the vagina, not realising that that would mean a woman wouldn&#8217;t be able to menstruate (a minority of people do have this condition, and can get a hymenectomy to help open the channel). Instead, most hymens have an annular or crescent-moon shape, and may take many forms of varying thinness and thickness. Few of us would have been told that it can change with age, that some of us aren&#8217;t born with one, or that it might totally disappear by the time we enter sexual maturity anyway. Or that a wide variety of activity can stretch or tear it, from exercise to masturbation to, yes, penetrative sex.<\/p><p>But this doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s any validity to the idea that you can ascertain sexual activity with a hymen examination. One small study of 36 pregnant teenagers published in 2004, for example, found that medical staff were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/14702498\/\">only able to make &#8220;definitive findings of penetration&#8221; in two cases<\/a>. Another 2004 study found that 52% of sexually active adolescent girls interviewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/8681517_Differences_in_Hymenal_Morphology_Between_Adolescent_Girls_With_and_Without_a_History_of_Consensual_Sexual_Intercourse\">had &#8220;no identifiable changes to the hymenal tissue&#8221;<\/a>. A binary idea that either we are sexually active and have no visible hymen, or that we aren&#8217;t sexually active and do have one, is simply not accurate.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ya learn something new every day! <\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-27499\" data-postid=\"27499\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-27499 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least as we know it now. According to science, the female hymen is not a good detector of whether a woman has had sex before, so we should really stop considering &#8220;breaking&#8221; the hymen to be the moment of lost virginity. 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