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Left over hymen 'flap'

  • 14-11-2014 11:48pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    Not looking for medical advice, just want to see if there are any women in the same boat and how it has effected them.

    I'm literally just after realising that I've always had a 'septate hymen'. This is basically when the hymen forms a line down the middle of the opening of the vagina essentially splitting the opening of the vagina in half. To be honest I just always thought this was a normal hymen as I didn't know any different, but a little research tells me that only about 1 in 1000 girls are born like this! It was never been much of an issue though, maybe just a little problematic getting tampons in and out at times. I lost my virginity years ago and since then I've only had sex with one other person. My ex wasn't very well endowed, so the hymen basically remained intact (the opening on one side was wider than the other so that was the part that was always penetrated and the hymen just stretched a bit... sorry if TMI!). But with the new guy I'm seeing... well it full on broke the first time! It was a bit painful and there was some blood, but I'm not concerned as the pain and blood didn't last. But now that it's 'heeled' I'm left with a kind of thin flap of skin that was the dividing piece (maybe a centimeter long... doesn't hang 'down', but does cover the opening of the vagina a bit).

    I suppose I'm a little self conscious about it... I've read that it can be removed and the next time I'm getting a smear test I might mention it to see what the options are, but it's would just be for aesthetic reasons. But I'm really just wondering if many other women have this 'flap' and if keeping it has had any negative impact on your sex life at all in the long run? Do guys even notice it?! I don't really want to bring it up with the guy I'm seeing because it could just be drawing attention to something he hadn't noticed :P


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  • #2
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    If it's bothering you I'd just get it removed, I imagine it's an easy snip. But for what it's worth, altough I have no idea what sort of hymen I have/had, I have all sorts of bits of skin flapping around down there and it's never bothered any of my sexual partners and it certainly doesn't bother me!


  • #3
    Brego888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Men (me included) are pretty much just delighted to be having sex in the first place that how a woman's vagina looks is an irrelevance


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