There is a common myth that you can tell if a woman is a virgin, by whether or not she bleeds the first time she has sex.
This has been found to be untrue as not all women bleed the first time they have sex. There are different reasons for this and chief among them is that not all women have hymen – the membrane that tends to cover part of the vaginal opening and supposedly breaks, leading to bleeding on a lady’s first sexual encounter.
Second, just as women have different heights and weights and features, all women also have different amounts and types of hymen.
Some women have thick hymens that would really bleed when torn, some have very thin hymens that may tear with as little an exertion as bicycling, and some others naturally have a very little amount of hymen that covers only a small portion of their vaginal opening that may not really get in the way during first-time sex. It has also been found that some hymen wear away on its own as a girl grows up.
Some with exercise such as bicycling, horseback riding and any other physical activity, even dancing or the use of tampons when menstruating.
This happens more to those with thin hymen. These go a long way to show that if a woman is born without a hymen, she won’t bleed the first time she has sex. If a woman has a small or thin hymen, she might not bleed the first time she has sex.
If a woman’s hymen has worn away on its own (which is very common as girls grow up), she won’t bleed the first time she has sex. The result is that the overwhelming majority – at least 63% of women – will NOT bleed the first time they have sex, says a study published by the British Medical Journal.
Women who do bleed include: women with thick hymens (who constitute a small percentage of the population); younger girls, because the hymen wears away on its own with time, a 16-year old has a higher chance of bleeding than a 25-year old.
However, even a young girl may not bleed the first-time sex if she has a thin hymen and is physically active, or have no hymen at all. Most often, women who bleed tend to be those who are dealt with roughly during sex.
If the man forces himself inside the girl, when she isn’t ready, relaxed or aroused enough, he is likely to cause injury or bleeding. Because most people think it’s normal for women to bleed the first time they have sex, they don’t realize that this bleeding is a result of the woman having been hurt, and not of the hymen ‘breaking.’
Painful first-time sex is generally because the woman is not relaxed or aroused enough, and gets hurt as a result; it is rarely ever because of the hymen breaking.
The bottom line is that there is no way to assess female virginity. Bleeding does not have anything to do with virginity – it has to do with the kind of hymen a girl has. The result is that only a small percentage of women bleed the first time!
Only 37% bleed during first-time sex, according to the study. Women all over the world get abused, injured and even killed due to the myth of ‘virgin bleeding.’
Because most people (men and women) think that bleeding is a sign of virginity, women who don’t bleed the first time have been divorced, suffered from suspicion leading to domestic violence and abuse, and even killed for honour. Educating people that a girl does not necessarily have to bleed the first time she has sex is important because it can literally save lives.

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