Post Date July, 30 2023
There is never a tissue or organ in a woman that causes so many ancient and new topics as the hymen, nor is there any organ that plays a farce of life and death, joy and sorrow, to the fate of humanity like the hymen. The hymen is a part of the female reproductive organs.
The hymen appears, develops, and forms at 3-4 months of age in the fetus, with varying shapes and thicknesses by puberty. Its pores can take on various forms such as wheel shaped, circular shaped, semi lunar shaped, and sieve shaped. It is a layer of mucous membrane tissue located in the Vaginal orifice and Vulval vestibule. It is in the form of a ring of folds, about 0.5 cm wide, and has holes in the middle to allow menstrual blood and secretions to flow out.
The hymen is unique to human females and is not found in other female animals. Only a very few women are born without a hymen, and only a very few women have no pores on their hymen, known as "stone maidens".
The hymen, as a barrier of the external genitalia, is a physiological barrier to sexual life and prevents the penis from entering the vagina. From a physiological perspective, this barrier may bring varying degrees of pain to the female partner. Some women may experience prolonged sexual pain due to the effects of hymen fragments. It should be said that the role of the hymen in sexual life is not beneficial for the man, but it can bring some pain to the woman. The hymen is detrimental to both husband and wife.
In sexual life, it may also pose a threat to the sexual physiology and psychology of both men and women. If encountering the "stubborn resistance" of the hymen makes the man "unable to attack for a long time", the man may ejaculate too quickly due to excessive excitement and tension. If the man carries a mental burden as a result, it may become a cause of premature ejaculation in the future.
In addition, if the woman is nervous and the man is too impatient or rude, in the case of the first sexual intercourse, the woman may also have some pain, which will leave a heavy psychological shadow for the woman, causing some women to become frigid and Vaginismus for a long time after marriage. Therefore, the appearance of Sexual dysfunction of both men and women is not unrelated to the existence of hymen.
With the development of human society to this day, the hymen of most mature women will be destroyed due to the union of men and women, leaving only deformed fragments. From an evolutionary perspective, the hymen seems to be an unnecessary organ. However, another principle of nature, "Survival of the fittest", is applicable everywhere. The principle of 'use in, waste out' is also an important principle of nature. Since the hymen has a negative impact on the first night sexual life of both men and women, and it will be broken sooner or later, why should it exist? What is the function of the hymen?
