If I could wave a magic wand and-*poof*-make the entire world stop caring about one thing, it would be the state of any given person's hymen. This teensy piece of tissue, usually no more than a few ...

1. They come in all shapes and sizes. Like the literal rest of your body, your hymen can be any shape or size. Alyssa Dweck, MD, a gynecologist in New York and author ofThe Complete A to Z for Your V, ...

During a recent episode of the "Ladies Like Us" podcast with actress Nazanin Mandi and makeup artist Nadia Moham, rapper T.I. opened up about the extreme lengths he goes to to ensure that his young ...

An outbreak in surgeries to restore virginity have spurred Carol Roye, a registered nurse, to talk about what every woman–and every teen in particular–should know about the most fabled part of her ...

Hymens are a fairly mysterious part of the vagina, so it’s totally normal if you have some questions surrounding this small piece of anatomy. Where exactly is the hymen located? What is its biological ...

There are so many myths attached to the hymen – the thin membrane that surrounds the vaginal opening – that sometimes it's difficult to sort fact from fiction. If you believed them all, you'd think it ...

The hymen: What's it all about? In a classic The Straight Dope that's being highlighted on the feature's website this month, answer man Cecil Adams claims that nobody knows. Other than making ...

The 18-year-old expressed that she was "very shocked, hurt, angry [and] embarrassed" by her father's comments. "I'm embarrassed definitely," Deyjah confessed to her cousins on their family vacation.