Her doctor later revealed she had a “septate hymen,” which has fibrous bands that create several openings but still need to be removed. While the surgery was awkward to talk about with her parents, ...

The hymen has a long, weird history. In ancient Greek mythology, Hymen was the god of marriage. And for years, people believed you could “test” whether a newly-married woman was still a virgin by ...

"Hymen" derives from the Greek for membrane. Hymen was also the Greek god of marriage. These two facts summarize the conventional wisdom about this widely misunderstood tissue, that this fabled ...