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 ...

There are so many myths attached to the hymen – the thin membrane that surrounds the vaginal opening – that sometimes it's difficult to sort fact from fiction. If you believed them all, you'd think it ...

"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 ...