Maids of as soft a bloom shall marry As Hymen yet hath blessed, And fairer forms are in the quarry Than Phidias released.
On the other hand, integrity of the hymen is no proof of virginity, apart from the obvious fact that there may be intercourse without penetration.
The hymen may be of a yielding or folding type, so that complete penetration may take place and yet the hymen be afterwards found unruptured.
For while Havelock Ellis, the greatest authority on sexual psychology the world has known, describes the hymen as having acquired in human estimation a spiritual value which has made it far more than a part of the feminine body, .
The ancient Egyptians used to make an incision in the hymen previous to marriage, and St. Athanasius relates that among the Phœnicians a slave of the bridegroom was charged by him to deflower the bride.
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It occasionally happens that the hymen is found intact at the end of pregnancy.
As round his shrine the gaudy circles bow, 480 And seal with muttering lips the faithless vow, Licentious Hymen joins their mingled hands, And loosely twines the meretricious bands.
And Hymen now with luckier issue speeds Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe.
A statue of Hymen looked down upon an altar, and above this altar allegorical figures of Denmark and England clasped hands.
A pretty ceremony took place; the maidens passed up the steps and laid their wreaths upon the altar of Hymen singing: God bless King Christian the Mild And his Caroline Mathilde.
You received from the hands of Hymen only one woman, awkward and innocent; the celibate returns you a dozen of them.
In some cases the hymen is absent from birth and in others only partially represented.
We did not know that the priests of Hymen were styled Reverend, nor were we aware that the divinity in question had any altar in St. George's church.
When the hymen obstructs the vaginal orifice, a similar operation may be necessary to divide it.
The operation consists in dividing the hymen by a crucial incision, thus allowing the accumulated fluid to be discharged, after which the vagina is cleansed by syringing it with warm water.
Imperforate hymen and vaginal stricture also sometimes cause obstruction and give rise to painful menstruation.
The hymen is a circular, or semilunar membrane, which imperfectly closes the outer orifice of the vagina in the virgin.
Hence, the presence of the hymen does not absolutely prove virginity; nor does its absence prove incontinence, although its presence would be prima facie evidence of continence.
It occasionally happens that the hymen is entire, or imperforate, at birth.
Pull ashore, in fashion steady, Hymen will defray the fare, For a clergyman is ready To unite the happy pair!
In atresia of the hymen symptoms only commence after puberty; there is then congenital amenorrhœa with periodic pelvic pain and gradual formation of a pelvic swelling.
Operations for Atresia of the Hymenand the Vagina, 143.
Their ducts open a little in front of the fossa navicularis, on each side of the vaginal orifice, in the groove between the attached border of the hymen and the labium minus.
The hymen is seized with a pair of toothed forceps and removed with curved scissors along its entire base of attachment.
In many cases of dyspareunia the cause will be found to be due to a thick, fleshy, and unruptured hymen or to tenderness about the remnants of that organ.
On inspection the hymen is distended and the blood-tumour above it gives a bluish tint to its surface.
A real sculptor had been commissioned to model the figure of Hymen that stood in the middle of the hall, and at or in among the fifty tables the wedding-parties sat or moved.
And their eyes should be centred, not on their own selfish and private parties, but on the figure in the centre of the room that she would put where that absurd Hymen now stood.
Every torch on the lintels of the door has Hymenaeus quenched, and hath torn to shreds the bridal crown, and Hymen no more, Hymen no more is the song, but a new song is sung of wailing.
Such were his words; and Hymen now prepares To light his torch, and give me up to cares; The afflictive hand of wrathful Jove to bear: A wretch the most complete that breathes the air!
The hallowed tapers all prepared were, And Hymen call'd to bless the rites.
Twice has Pudica been a bride, and led By holy Hymen to the nuptial bed.
All rites well ended, with fair auspice come (As to the breaking of a bride-cake) home, Where ceremonious Hymen shall for thee Provide a second epithalamy.
Mr. Love, and looking so diminutive by the contras that you might have fancied that the Priest of Hymen had only to breathe to blow him away.
In fact, that archpriest of the Temple of Hymen was never more great than he was that day; never did his establishment seem more solid, his reputation more popular, or his fortune more sure.
Longs for the world, of nothing there afraid: Dreams of delight invade her gentle breast, And fancied lovers rob the heart of rest; At the paternal door a carriage stands, Love knits their hearts and Hymen joins their hands.
Dweller on the mount of Helicon, Seed of the Heavenly One, Thou that bearest off the tender maiden to her bridegroom, O Hymenaean Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaean!
It is well known that the use of vaginal astringents may tone up and narrow the vagina and even restore the hymen to a great degree.
The presence of an intact hymen is not necessarily a sign of virginity, nor does its absence necessarily indicate defloration.
There normally must be a small opening in the hymen to permit the passage of the menstrual flow.
In the virgin it is partly closed by a membranous fold called the hymenor maidenhead.
The shape and size of the hymenvaries greatly in different individuals, sometimes being entirely absent.
The rupturing of the hymen is often attended with a small quantity of blood, sometimes scarcely perceptible, and at other times more considerable.
Napheys says: "The presence or absence of the hymenis no test.
While it is true that in most virgins thehymen does exist, yet we do not have the slightest hesitation in saying that it does not exist in all.
It was at one time thought that the presence of the hymen was an unmistakable evidence of virginity, and its absence was regarded as a cause for suspicion, if not a proof, of previous sexual relation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
