Enemy of Entropy

I still have a hymen (or “vaginal corona”) ? And I thought I just had the box it came in!

9 December 2009, 7:15 pm. Comments Off. Filed under General.

Swedish group renames hymen ‘vagi­nal corona’

…(T)he term hymen is rooted in the Greek word for mem­brane. Rather than a frag­ile mem­brane that breaks, how­ever, the hymen is actu­ally mul­ti­ple folds of mucous membrane.

The vagi­nal corona is a per­ma­nent part of a woman’s body through­out her life. It doesn’t dis­ap­pear after she first has sex­ual inter­course, and most women don’t bleed the first time.

After read­ing the arti­cle, I have to say that I agree with the rea­son­ing as to why there should be a name change, but I don’t really think it’s going to go far. It’s far bet­ter to just con­tinue to work on tak­ing vir­gin­ity off the ridicu­lous pedestal upon which it has been placed than on try­ing to replace one word with another.

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