It's not an instant pain you'd feel if you tore a muscle or broke a bone. Some people experience pain or light bleeding when their hymen breaks, but most will feel nothing. Since it's a flexible piece of tissue, it stretches and thins over time from day-to-day activities or from using tampons.
For some, it hurts when their hymen stretches or breaks, while others do not feel it happen. Many believe that the hymen breaks when a person has penetrative sex for the first time — this is not necessarily true. Some females do not have hymens. If a person has one, it may wear down gradually during other activities.
The amount of blood can vary from a few drops to bleeding for a few days. If the bleeding lasts for longer than three days, consult a health care provider.
Some people experience pain or light bleeding when their hymen breaks, but most will feel nothing. Since it's a flexible piece of tissue, it stretches and thins over time from day-to-day activities or from using tampons. If you bleed when your hymen breaks, many believe it's their period or spotting.
So the bottom line is that stretching your hymen happens easily and naturally, often before you even have sex, and it generally doesn't hurt. You probably won't bleed if you stretch your hymen, but if you tear it the first time you have penetrative sex, a few drops of blood is normal.
No, the hymen can't grow back once it's been stretched open. The hymen is a thin, fleshy tissue that stretches across part of the opening of your vagina. The hymen can be stretched open the first time you have vaginal sex. Vaginal sex isn't the only thing that can open your hymen.
Tampons work just as well for girls who are virgins as they do for girls who have had sex. And even though using a tampon can occasionally cause a girl's hymen to stretch or tear, it does not cause a girl to lose her virginity. (Only having sex can do that.)
Just like the vulva, hymens don't all look the same. Some may be larger than others, some have fringing, while others are more lobed-shaped. Some have round holes, others have perforations shaped like a half-moon. There is not a standard of 'normal' when it comes to what hymens look like.
Anytime there is semen inside or around the vagina, pregnancy is possible even if you've never had your period before or if you have never had sex. This is true even if your hymen (the thin fleshy tissue that stretches across part of the opening to the vagina) didn't break.
Want Your Virginity Back? Many people who wish they could return to virginity are choosing to become "second-generation virgins." Second-generation virginity is a choice to abstain from sex again for a period of time. For some, that time is a few months; for others a few years or until marriage.
Let's start by explaining that the hymen doesn't really “break.” Hymen tissue is membrane-like and flexible, meaning it stretches and eventually tears. Further, your hymen can't grow back or somehow “break” twice.
First things first: there is no right or wrong age to lose your virginity. The only factors that matter when it comes to having sex for the first time is that both you and your partner are ready, you both have consented, and you're using protection.
The average age for losing your virginity in Australia is somewhere between 16-18 years old, and now that Louise is 22, she's starting to really freak out that she's still a virgin.
There are no physical signs that a person has had sex for the first time. Although some people claim that a torn hymen is a sign of “lost virginity,” this is not true. Many people tear their hymen before having penetrative sex, and others never tear theirs.
The hymen surrounds your vaginal opening like a ring or donut, and then, as it tears or stretches, it appears more like a crescent. If you have an annular or crescent-shaped hymen, it might look slightly different depending on the way your hymen has stretched or torn.
A half moon of thin membrane normally surrounds a young girl's vagina. Sometimes, the membrane has a band of extra tissue — called a septate hymen — in the middle, which creates two openings to the vagina.
in most newborn girls, the hymen has an annular appearance (Figure 1). the ring shape extends all of the way around the vaginal rim. oestrogen can cause the hymen to thicken (increase in depth) and also to increase in width.
The hymen can be broken in any number of ways. Sexual activity (including fingering, oral sex, penetration and masturbation) can break the hymen, yes, but so can the insertion of a tampon or even exercising.
Lots of people haven't had sex by 17, and many more wait until even later. There's nothing weird, unusual, or immature about being abstinent at any age. Having sex doesn't make you more grown-up — in fact, waiting is one of the most mature decisions you can make.
The sperm enters the egg in the fallopian tube. It can happen even 3-5 days after ejaculation. There is no way for either of the partners to know if the sperm entered the egg. The only way to know for sure if the sperm did enter the egg is after a positive pregnancy test.
The term splash pregnancy refers to a phenomenon where no actual penetration occurred but ejaculation at the vicinity of the exterior of the vagina propelled the sperm to the ovaries. In some cases, sufferers of vaginismus can still have vaginal delivery.
It's normal to have bleeding the first time you have sex, but it's also normal not to. Vaginas have a thin tissue that stretches across part of the opening. This is called a hymen. Sometimes when a person has vaginal sex for the first time, their hymen gets stretched open, which can cause pain or bleeding.