The Myth of Popping Your Cherry

The Myth of Popping Your Cherry

This myTake is going to be short and to the point, and if you don't know what "popping your cherry" means, it basically is a slang for breaking your hymen.

One of the most annoying sex myths I came across, is that people automatically coming to the conslusion that you have to break the hymen to actually have sex (and no longer be a virgin). Well guess what, you don't lose it, it doesn't pop and it definitely shouldn't bleed. And if it does, then you're doing it wrong.

It's not a pointless strip of flesh, it protects the vagina, and when it's time for sex, it becomes flexible enough to stretch away from the vaginal opening.

You don't just push through it. If your well lubricated, it shouldn't tear and you definitely don't lose it. Ever.

It doesn't have to regenerate because it doesn't go anywhere.

The hymen automatically retracts during periods of sexual inactivity, which is why it can hurt sometimes if you have sex after a long period of dry spell.

All the myths surrounding the hymen, make losing your virginity sound like much more scarier than it really is. It doesn't have to hurt and you don't have to physically lose a part of yourself.

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Most Helpful Guy

  • What usually happens is the dummy they are fucking shoves his dick all the way in and fucks her like a dog. She's nervous and not aroused. The hymen isn't used to such stress. She may also be having sex with a guy who has a big dick though too. This is why people say virgins are "tight". No they aren't. It's just that the hymen is there (in this scenario, but I know a virgin can still be a virgin without it breaking). The vagina is no different.

Most Helpful Girl

  • omg... i really thought it was popping cherries lmao.
    anyway whaaaaaaaaaat. sex ed has been teaching us all wrong for years

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  • It is actually perfectly normal for the hymen to break from ridorious physcial penetration, it isn't a myth, and girls/women should have a reaalistic, accurate understanding of what can happen to their body during first time sex (or not necissarily the firt time).

  • Parts of this MyTake are factually incorrect (as is Laci Green on this subject, even though she's usually right on). Like these parts:

    "and when it's time for sex, it becomes flexible enough to stretch away from the vaginal opening."

    "You don't just push through it. If your well lubricated, it shouldn't tear and you definitely don't lose it. Ever."

    "The hymen automatically retracts during periods of sexual inactivity"

    The vaginal canal has a sphincter muscle at the opening, and at the entrance to the hole, there is extra tissue that closes the big hole down to a much smaller one. If you used a toilet-paper tube to represent the vaginal canal, and you stretched a sheet of rubber (dental dam or something similar) over the entrance, and put a dime-sized hole in the rubber sheet, you'd have a simplified representation of a hymen. Yes, the hymen can stretch a bit (and some girls' hymens can stretch more than others), and you can still get a finger or tampon through the smaller hole in most cases, but generally a penis is too big to fit without tearing the hymen, just as you couldn't get a larger dildo through the dime-sized hole in the dental dam without tearing it.

    The skin can't "retract" because it's all connected in a circle. It can't "move out of the way" - it can only stretch or tear once larger objects try to enter the smaller hole the hymen leaves. But once the hymen tears (and it usually tears in several places, though not always during the girls first time), the "ring" is broken.

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    Another example: if you have a gummy Lifesaver, you can probably get your pinky finger through the hole without tearing the Lifesaver, but if you try to put your thumb through the hole, it's going to rip the gelatin - the Lifesaver is elastic, but only to a certain limit - it can only stretch so far before it tears.

  • It don't hurt? well you can tell that to the Asker in this link, and to many other girls. :)

    www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q1808831-is-something-wrong

  • Actually, don't worry if it bleeds, that can happen too.
    OP is spouting misconceptions, people.

  • Great MyTake :)