Although it is a paradox in the XXI century, are increasingly made more surgeries to reconstruct the hymen. This intervention is sued by women who for cultural or religious reasons should be virgins at marriage. Also women who want to make “a gift” to their partners or prostitutes who want to sell their alleged virginity.
The hymen is a thin membrane of elastic and fibrous tissue that partially covers the vaginal opening. This membrane can be broken with the first penetration and bleeding occur.
The hymen reconstruction surgery, is very simple and is done on an outpatient basis. This surgery using sutures reassembled the fragments of the hymen that are still in the vagina.
Surgical repair of the hymen is not unique to our days in the Celestina of Francisco de Rojas (1500) we read: “This of the virgins, made them a bladder and other cured by a point. He had a Tabladillo (.. .) hides a thin needle and thread waxed silk, and hung there roots and stem Sanguine plasma sheet, and Squill Cepacaballo, did wonders with it: when the French ambassador came three times sold for a servant to virgin had. ” The bawd Celestina was credited with having “made and unmade” more than 5,000 hymens, irrefutable proof of honor and chastity ”
Currently, it is a statement made by some gynecologists and plastic surgeons. Besides the reconstruction of the hymen, also had cosmetic surgery vaginal rejuvenation. (more…)
