Growing up as a woman, you probably didn’t get the right sex education or even any sex education at all. And the little tidbit you got from your parents like not allowing boys to go near your vagina till you’re married because men respect virgins stuck with you till you reached womanhood. As a grown woman who has probably had sex, you now seek tricks to make your husband-to-be believe you are still a virgin, not questioning the sense in that.

The idea surrounding virginity is one of the reasons why the family of rape victims makes efforts not to report the case to avoid ‘devaluing’ the child. Even though it wasn’t the child’s fault that she lost ‘their meaning’ of virginity, they protect her ‘virginity status’ so prospective suitors won’t see her as tainted.

But is that really all virginity means? Do you cease to be a virgin only when your hymen breaks? If you said yes, sorry, what you believe in is a myth. Here are 5 common myths about virginity and its bouncer, the hymen:

https://altgist.com/lifestyle/5-common-myths-about-virginity-and-the-hymen/