This subject came to mind when I read about the woman who was divorced recently because her husband concluded she was not a virgin. Evidence suggests there is no accurate physical indicator of virginity. Just like you, buddy!

An another myth bits the dust. Yet, I still wonder...

I always wondered about that too. Hymmm. Oh I mean hymen!

Yes, midwives and doctoral students can overturn anatomy. Good subject to discuss on a talk show. Was it kind of Jerry Springer's.

You're comparing doctoral research to Jerry Springer?

Plenty of Muslim women paying good money to have their hymens fixed so that their soon to be husbands won't divorce them. In Britain they have vacation packages just for this procedure.

I've heard that, and it's one of the reasons I posted the clip.

You're comparing doctoral research to Jerry Springer?

Is this research, masbury?

- Last summer we participated in the Swedish radio program, ‘Gender.’ Soon after this, a gynecologist who had published a study in the Swedish Medical Journal got in touch with us. Her study had showed the same thing: the hymen is a myth.

Conclusions of medical students isn't doctoral research. With views like these they running to risk never be graduated. Even findings of one scientist must be proved many times independently. But in anatomy to find something new is practically impossible.

May be in Sveden early sexual experience is new fashion now and this publication preparing suitable explanation for such sudden phenomen.

The hymen is real. Jeesh, this was just a silly clip.

C'mon, friends: You're missing the point.

The point of clipping it (the article, that is), is simply to offer one writer's view of how the significance of the hymen is way exaggerated.

Some women, apparently have the remainder of the membrane that covered the vaginal opening prenatally; others apparently do not. Neither condition offers reliable information about sexual history.

Like so many degrading shibboleths that men have used to pass judgment on women (my goodness, it's like checking the teeth on a mare), its significance is rooted in folktales, and it's worth debunking every time it comes up.

@ aklimento:

Is this research, masbury?

- Last summer we
participated in the Swedish radio program, ‘Gender.’ Soon after this, a
gynecologist who had published a study in the Swedish Medical Journal
got in touch with us. Her study had showed the same thing: the hymen is
a myth.

Conclusions of medical students isn't doctoral research.

Look again. The publication of a study by a gynecologist in the Swedish Medical Journal represents significant research; Jerry Springer it is not.

I wonder if your response isn't a bit over the top.

OK, I admit it. May be just a little bit .

Thanks - that's a pretty humble response!