Hymen

The hymen (hymen, hymen) is a semilunar or perforated connective tissue plate that covers the vaginal opening in girls and serves as a barrier between the external and internal organs of the female reproductive system. The hymen is rich in capillaries and nerve endings.

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The hymen is found in such mammals as: chimpanzees, humans, horses, elephants and whales.

At the first sexual intercourse, the hymen is usually ruptured, and its remnants acquire the form of hymen flaps (carunculae hymenales). The process of deprivation of virginity is called defloration. There is also a traumatic defloration, in which the deprivation of virginity occurs as a result of an injury that is not related to sexual intercourse.

Sometimes there may be a congenital absence of the hymen. After the rupture of the hymen, it is possible for her to become infected - secondary atresia.

The hymen is considered the only organ of a woman who does not change in size from the moment of birth. Based on the shape and number of its openings, the hymen is: annular (with one hole in the middle); also isolated as semilunar, tubular, labial, keelike, cylindrical. During the first sexual intercourse during defloration, the hymen rupture most often occurs and only the hymenal papillae remain from it. With a strong spit, false vaginismus may appear.

Usually female virginity assumes the anatomical integrity of the hymen. But it is possible, for example, such variants: in consequence of anatomical distinctive features and elasticity, the hymen can remain whole, including after a few sexual acts, in conjunction with this it can be damaged, for example, special. Devices during gynecological examination, or as a result of trauma, active occupation of certain sports. Male virginity does not have any anatomical features and a virgin is considered to be a representative of the stronger sex who did not have heterosexual or homosexual sexual contacts.

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Physiological appointment of the hymen

The hymen fulfills a rather utilitarian function in the female - or rather, in the maiden - body. It plays the same role as the lips of the mouth: serves as a barrier between the external and internal environment (in this case - the vagina). Unfortunately, a thin film in the girl's body, created to protect the tender creature from infections, actually began to play a crucial role in the lives of women.

The moral value of the hymen

In different historical epochs the moral significance of virginity was different. In some peoples who were at the primitive stage of formation, the long state of virginity was estimated as the sexual unattractiveness of a young woman. In ancient Greece, for example, it was common when a girl of 4-5 years took part in the sexual amusements of young people or even adults. The concept of virginity existed exclusively for Vestals - priestesses of the goddess of the family hearth of Vesta. Vestalku, who lost her virginity, was buried alive. For all other girls, sexual emancipation was an absolutely routine concept, and no one was embarrassed by the very early onset of sexual activity. During the reign of the emperor Tiberius (1st century AD), the law did not allow to punish a virgin. Before execution, the executioner had to deprive her of her innocence. In the pre-Christian period, when prostitution was very common, the object of sacrifice was considered a virgin and it was often the virgin who was sacrificed by the Almighty. In the traditions of initiation, the deprivation of innocence was carried out traditionally by the non-sexual method with the help of an artificial penis.

According to ethnic superstitions in almost all European states, virginity embodies an unblown rosebud, which the woman or proudly holds or closes, is protected by him. In Holland, a wife who kept her virginity before marriage, wore an apron with a rosebud woven or embroidered on clothes. An orthodox Muslim, the Koran promises 10,000 virgins in paradise, which after every night wonderfully again become innocent. At the beginning of the XIX century. The price for a virgin in London was £ 100. In the Land of the Rising Sun, from 3 to 4 thousand operations for the restoration of the hymen are performed annually. 80% of Japanese people are still urging that his wife be immaculate.

But the hymen has long been valued not as a method to support women's health. As is known, in almost all nations, the preservation of virginity was an indispensable condition for the young woman to marry. To such an extent it is mandatory that the bloodstained sheet after the wedding night was shown to all people with pride, and girls who lost their virginity ahead of time were punished by their own siblings, uncles or fathers