VaginalCorona
The vaginal corona, or hymen, is a fleshy ring inside a girl's or woman's vagina. Most people still call it a hymen, but I like the newer term vaginal corona. Apparently the word hymen is based the ancient Greek word for meaning "think skin" or "membrane", not after the ancient Greek god of marriage, Hymen. The term vaginal corona is much newer. The word corona is Latin for crown and other things. The vaginal corona is located 1-2 cm (0.5"-1") in the vagina, and like all other private parts? it comes in many shapes and sizes.
I have read the vaginal corona's purpose is to prevent diseases like bacterial infections from spreading further up the vagina, but I have also read it has no known purpose.
The vaginal corona is usually torn or stretched out the first time a woman has sex. This causes the belief that if a woman has a torn or stretched out vaginal corona she is not a virgin. This in turn causes the belief that if a girl or woman has an intact vaginal corona she is a virgin, even if she's had other kinds of sex. I talk about virginity more in the article on virginity, but in short neither of these beliefs are accurate.
Very rarely, a girl is born without a vaginal corona. At the other end, some women who have been married for years or who are even about to give birth sometimes have one. Relying on the presence of a vaginal corona to prove that a woman is a virgin is backwards and inaccurate. The corona can be torn from things other than sex, too, such as vigorous exercise or horseback riding. This doesn't mean you are no longer a virgin if that happens to you! In some girls and women, the corona is quite tough, and in others it is thin and breaks easily, like from the vigorous exercise mentioned above like from jumping rope, etc.
Tearing of the corona, whether through sex or not, can produce mild to moderate bleeding, though I have read not always. (This is different from the bleeding from menstruation.) This is colloquially called "popping your cherry". Do not be alarmed.
If the vaginal corona covers your entire vaginal opening, this would block the exit of menstrual fluids, and you can get surgery to have a small hole put in.
A lot of men/boys want to or prefer to have sex with girls with intact vaginal coronas because of the exquisite sexual pleasure, and/or wanting to be macho or predatory?, and have sex with a girl before anyone else does. Some men might just want to think a women's whole sexuality is devoted to them.
There is a myth (a massive myth) that having sex with a girl with an intact vaginal corona cures STIs, like chlamydia or HIV/AIDS. This is extremely disgusting and of course completely untrue. Having sex with a girl with an intact vaginal corona does not cure STIs or any other infection or disease, that is nonsensical and extremely foolish. All this leads to is rape and spreading STIs to innocent virgins.
I don't have instructions here on stretching the corona to prepare for first-time sex.
I've heard of misinformation that the vaginal corona is harder and more painful to break the older the woman who's having sex is. This is an example of bad sex education? and why the world needs accurate sex education so badly. There's no rush to lose your virginity.
Old terms for vaginal corona
- Hymen
- Maidenhead (I read this is a vulgar term)