Can the hymen be touched?

Many women who have not had sexual experience are more concerned about their ruptured hymen. Therefore, knowing the location of the ruptured hymen is helpful for daily protection. So how deep is the ruptured hymen can it be touched by hand? Many people often use the presence of vaginal bleeding to determine whether a woman's hymen is broken or cracked. In fact, this method is unreasonable, because there are many other reasons for vaginal bleeding in women, such as vaginitis, uterine fibroids and so on. In addition, some women bleed very little when their hymen breaks, and bleeding does not necessarily occur in or out of the vagina.

1. How deep is the hymen broken? Can you touch it with your hand?

The ruptured hymen is located 3-5 cm away from the vulva, at the junction of the vulva and the vestibule of the vagina. It is a thin film of tissue that has a hole in the middle of the vulva and is not completely closed. Therefore, it can usually be touched with fingers, but it is not recommended for women who have never had sex to try it casually, because doing so can easily cause rupture of the hymen. (Generally, the hymen hole is more than one finger wide. If you put one finger into the vagina, the hymen will not break easily, but if you poke around, it will break. Some hymen holes are strip-shaped or sieve-shaped, and some are relatively thin, which are very easy to be punctured. When broken, there will be slight pain or bleeding)

2. Causes of ruptured hymen

1. The one that everyone is most familiar with is that when a woman has sexual intercourse for the first time, her hymen will break and bleed. In addition, if the following accidents occur, the hymen will break and bleed.

2. If some women participate in long jump, horse riding, traditional martial arts and other sports excessively, it may cause the hymen to rupture; and some women are not good at cleaning the vulva or using built-in sanitary tampons, which may also cause the hymen to rupture.

3. Excessive exercise, vaginal suppositories, and some complicated physical work can cause the rupture of the hymen. The ignorance of childhood, inserting foreign objects into the vagina and masturbation can also cause the rupture of the hymen.