I know that horseback riding and biking are listed as possible hymen-breakers. However, as a rider since the age of three and a biker since I could sit on a tricycle, I just don't see how that could physically happen- if there's any contact between the hymen and the saddle, it would seem to me, unless I'm just different anatomically, that you're doing something drastically wrong. How exactly can the hymen break in such activities?
Tue, 06/12/2007 - 04:11
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How does the hymen break through exercise?
You are doing nothing drastically wrong. In some women the hymen in tougher to begin with; nothing anatomically different about you.
There are some women who have had sexual intercourse yet still have parts of the hymen.
As women exercise, use tampons; the tissue becomes more pliable and more fragile. It stretches and thins out eventually becoming non-existent. The examples of how the hymen tears are only examples of why some women's may no longer be intact without sexual contact.
Right, I understand that. What I can't understand, due to my own extensive experience in both sports, is how these sports can cause the hymen to become thinner. There is no contact between the hymen and the saddle.
Yea but your vaginal area is rubbing up against the seat/saddle. The hymen is just a little piece of skin covering the entrance to your vagina.
The skin all around your vaginal area and between your thighs is related and pulling and stretching.
Just like in gymnastics..their area isn't rubbing against anything but their legs are stretching VERY far apart, lol.
My friend said she tore her's when she was little riding a bike. She slipped of the seat and her crouch hit real hard on the bar between her legs. She was maybe like 10 yrs old or something...and that she bled down there a little.
The hymen in most women is a very thin and fragile tissue. Many gymnasts and even tennis players, etc, stretch and twist and the movement of the legs is more important than contact with anything. Tampons come next and those, of course, simply wear it away.
Some women do have particularly tough or thicker hymens. It is a good idea to get a little help with these. I do offer this to any woman getting her first pelvic who seems to be rather tough. Some accept and some are abhorred at the suggestion. A year or so later they may have changed their minds.
When you say "a little help," are you referring to surgically puncturing the hymen? Or something different?
It's a small surgical blade used to nick the tissue. It's not surgery & takes just a few minutes.
What I do, as sera says, is wipe the area, make a tiny cut with a blade and put on a dab of anti-bacterial cream. Wear a pantiliner for an hour and that is it. It is much easier than coming here asking why "he could not get in."
Brandye, I'm moving to Scotland and looking you up...
Mine tore in gymnastics, I used to be a national level athlete. One day I was practicing on the beam (you know, the little four-inch wide piece of wood off the ground? lol) with it really high. I fell, and landed RIGHT on my crotch, nicknamed "straddling the beam" by gymnasts for obvious reasons. This had happened many times before, but I fell harder this time, and my legs split right apart. I went to the bathroom to wash my face and calm down. Had a bit of blood in my suit and had a stinging pain for about a week. I thought nothing of it until I lost my virginity, and it didn't hurt lol.