What are the methods and techniques to distinguish true and false hymen?

The hymen appears, develops and forms when the fetus is 3-4 months old. The shape and thickness of the hymen vary during puberty. Its pores can be in various shapes such as wheel-shaped, ring-shaped, half-moon-shaped, and sieve-shaped. It is a layer of mucous membrane tissue located in the vaginal opening and vaginal vestibule. It is a circle of circular folds, about 0.5 cm wide, with a hole 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. There are also very few women who are born without a hymen, and very few women who have no holes in their hymen. These girls are called "stone girls".

In fact, the hymen is not a layer of membrane in the literal sense. It is actually a very thin and delicate mucous membrane tissue, located about 5 cm away from the vaginal opening, in the shape of a circle of circular folds. There are holes on the normal hymen, which may be ring-shaped, semicircular, sieve-shaped, etc., which are called hymenal pores. The mucous membrane tissue of the hymen contains rich microvessels, nerve endings, etc. Therefore, when the hymen ruptures, women often experience a small amount of vaginal bleeding accompanied by pain.

Hymen = virginity?

Since the hymen usually ruptures after sexual intercourse, the traditional concept regards the integrity of the hymen as the only way to test whether a woman has had sexual intercourse, and often judges whether a woman's hymen is ruptured by whether there is vaginal bleeding. However, experts point out that this identification method is actually wrong, because the hymen is close to the vaginal opening and can be ruptured if not handled with care. For example, some women may rupture their hymen when participating in strenuous sports such as high jumping, horse riding, and martial arts; vaginal medication and certain heavy physical labor can cause rupture of the hymen; ignorance in childhood may cause foreign objects to be inserted into the vagina and masturbation can also cause rupture of the hymen.

Having a hymen does not necessarily mean a woman is a virgin, and not having a hymen may also mean a woman is pure. Some people go to the obstetrics and gynecology department of a hospital and ask for a "virginity test". The doctor can only determine whether the hymen is intact and whether there are any old lacerations. As to whether the parties have had sexual intercourse, only forensic institutions can make a legally binding conclusion. As for the virgin "Shougongsha" mentioned in martial arts novels, as well as the various "virginity identification methods" circulating on the Internet, experts believe that they have no scientific basis and are pure nonsense.

How to identify true and false hymen?

Even though many people know that there are many ways to cause the rupture of the hymen, in traditional concepts, the integrity of the hymen is still regarded as the standard of whether a woman is a virgin. Therefore, in order to cater to the "virgin complex" of thousands of men, hymen repair surgery emerged and stood out among female reproductive plastic surgery. In recent years, it has become a popular surgery. So what is hymen repair surgery? Experts say that the so-called hymen repair is to sew up the ruptured hymen and use modern scientific methods to restore it to its original state before the rupture. Theoretically, it can be repaired repeatedly. During the operation, the fine needles and threads of microsurgery should be used for suturing to achieve better results.

However, surgery is always risky, and it is not easy to restore the "factory settings". Experts say the difficulty of hymenoplasty depends on the shape of the fragments of the ruptured hymen. If the rupture is caused by external impact, less sexual life, sports tearing, etc., it is generally easier to repair. However, due to many reasons such as poor blood supply to the tissue fibers of the hymen, high tension on the wound after surgery, susceptibility to contamination and difficulty in care, the operation is difficult to succeed in one go, especially in the case of complex rupture of the hymen. A gynecologist can tell whether it is "original" at a glance. The surgery has a certain failure rate, and for some people the fracture will rupture again once the stitches are removed.

Moreover, it is impossible for the repaired hymen to be exactly the same as before sexual intercourse. The holes in the hymen of a true virgin are very small, and the shape of the holes is very regular, smooth and symmetrical up and down and left and right. There will never be any scars on the hymen and the edges of the hymen. The size of the hole is only enough to accommodate a finger. The holes in the repaired hymen cannot be regular and smooth, and the holes are obviously larger. The shape of the hole is Z-shaped, Y-shaped, or radial. You can clearly see a complete circle of sutures left around the hymen after the hymen repair surgery.

In addition, many people only pay attention to that layer of membrane and do not think about vaginal tightening during the hymen repair surgery. The result is that although the hymen exists, the vagina is loose. When we had sex, I could clearly feel that she was a fake virgin.