Hymen looks weird??
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Hymen looks weird??
| Thu, 12-23-2004 - 7:50pm |
Ok...I've recently become sexually active, and I've noticed that the opening to my vagina looks...different. It looks jagged and the "skin" or membrane or whatever around the opening is not very tight or resilient. This sounds gross, but if you touch it, it just kind of lays flat, like it's lifeless. Is this the hymen? What should this look like--it literally looks like a popped, jagged cherry. I could really use ANY feedback. Thanks a lot ;)

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I don't know what pictures you were looking at....if it was the drawings...they are ancient, and not completely accurate. Then of course, there are variations from woman to woman, also. We are NOT all identical. Here is a photograph that shows a vulva, with everything in it's normal place. http://www.the-clitoris.com/1r4/anatomy/disectb.jpg
If you will note, #1 is the clitoris, and #7 is the urethra, slightly below the clitoris (not one and the same!), and above the vagina. #3 is the hymen, and this is supposed to be a virgin, so that shows that even in a virgin, the hymen is at the opening of the vagina, and NOT completely covering the vagina. The hymen is "tissue" (not skin) just like the surrounding tissue. When a virgin has intercourse, the hymen doesn't "discharge" (?), it will either stretch or it will tear, which is why some women bleed the first time they have intercourse. It doesn't go anywhere, it doesn't "fall off", it just stretches, or tears (which heals quickly), and is no longer a problem. (In most cases, it's not a "problem" to start with.)
If you look at the other picture below it, it shows the uterus and the cervix (#19), which is at the "top" of the vagina, nowhere near the hymen. The cervix is what "dilates" when you're about to give birth.
You have to understand that drawings are not always done to correct proportions, particularly the OLD ones. However, the proportions are close enough to give a general idea of locations and sizes. Your analogy of the New England states being incorrectly illustrated as "small" isn't correct either. The New England states ARE small compared to most other states. The State of Connecticut is approximately the same size as San Diego COUNTY in California. Current maps are done from satellite photographs, and are correct to the foot, maybe to the inch.
I'm not sure what the OP is looking at, but it's NOT her hymen. More than likely it's her inner lips.....which just kind of "lay" there until they're engorged with blood during sexual activity. Even though everyone who is sexually active SHOULD have regular annual visits to a gyno......there is nothing there that warrants a special visit. Unless she's in pain, or is bleeding profusely.....there is nothing wrong. She's perfectly normal.....as "normal" as any human anatomy can be.
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