When \ How did your hymen ("cherry") break?

Contributor: Antipova Antipova
I have no idea when mine broke. I still have some visible remnants of it, though, so maybe it was always just a few flaps of skin and never a "seal" to be broken. I didn't use insertable vaginal toys or tampons til I lost my virginity, but there was no pain or blood when I lost my virginity anyway. I'm not sure.
07/09/2011
Contributor: Jenyana Jenyana
I actually don't know when it broke. By age ten, when I started masturbating, it was already broken. I suppose I must have broken it earlier... I was a tomboy and played rough.
07/11/2011
Contributor: soyandapplecrisp soyandapplecrisp
Pretty painful experience I rather not elaborate on.
07/11/2011
Contributor: SexyLilPixi SexyLilPixi
When I was 13, by my best friend.
07/11/2011
Contributor: bayosgirl bayosgirl
I'm not exactly sure because I never bled, but I *think* it was from using my vibrator at around age 15 or 16. I felt a barrier and I just put a little more pressure and it "broke" through. No pain though.
07/11/2011
Contributor: Waterfall Waterfall
I honestly don't know when it broke. I didn't bleed and it didn't hurt much the first time I had sex or the next few times either. I have a faint memory from when I was around 7 or 8 of landing wrong on a bike and there being blood in my underwear, so I think this might have been what did it.
07/11/2011
Contributor: anonomous anonomous
Intercourse at 15. boring. I feel horrible hearing all these painful stories though!
08/10/2011
Contributor: Starkiller87 Starkiller87
I was really really young and was climb on chairs while my mom was on the phone. And fell and hit the arm of the chair between my legs and broke my hymen. I had to go to the hospital, I remember bits and parts of it. I was laying on the front room floor while my mom called my gramma to babysit, it was really late at night like 7 or 8 pm. And I remember holding my legs in the air cryyyyying. When I went to the doctor they investigated my parents and everything, but it was just stupid me falling on a chair arm.
08/11/2011
Contributor: PurpleCat23 PurpleCat23
Don't remember it ever breaking. Hymens erode away naturally. That's how blood is able to come out during menstruation. Have experienced minor pain/discomfort and a few TINY drops of blood, but nothing more.
09/18/2011
Contributor: Gone (LD29) Gone (LD29)
I chose "other" because I have no recollection whatsoever of when, how, or even if. The first time I had sex was sort of an "is it in yet?" moment as it was, so I usually assume it was sometime before that.
09/19/2011
Contributor: Beck Beck
I have no idea for sure. I do not remember it happening!
09/19/2011
Contributor: AndroAngel AndroAngel
I was 20, my lover's fingers were the first thing to "break" it, but we were careful, so it didn't so much tear as get stretched out of the way/eroded over time. I could definitely feel the damn thing the first few times he tried to finger me, though...
09/19/2011
Contributor: allehcat allehcat
I never really noticed but I assume from masturbating, which I started at about 13-14. I didn't have any trouble my "first time", but his dick was also TINY.
09/19/2011
Contributor: KittenPrincess KittenPrincess
Glad to see I'm not the only one who has no clue when her hymen broke...I've always wondered if that was strange, I don't ever remember it being there.
09/22/2011
Contributor: ThoughtsAblaze ThoughtsAblaze
I assumed that since I'd used tampons and been fingered, my hymen must've broken before intercourse. But judging by the pain and bleeding from intercourse (he was gentle and slow), I would say it broke during sex.
09/23/2011
Contributor: Miss Anonymous Miss Anonymous
Mine was when I first had sex at 17, and it was no fun. It actually took a couple of times to completely break it. I never want to go through that again. It was one of the most painful things I've ever had to deal with.
09/25/2011
Contributor: Katastophy Katastophy
It probably broke during masturbation when I was around 11, but I really don't know.
09/26/2011
Contributor: hyacinthgirl hyacinthgirl
I thought it had been broken at age 4, because I had a bad fall and tore my inner and outer labia. When I was 19, and my ex and I began fooling around with fingering and such, we discovered that it was still there. It later broke during a particularly heavy menstrual cycle after being weakened by his fingers. That pain was particularly epic, and I was at work as a seating hostess. I was hanging on to the host's stand, sobbing in pain, and they wouldn't let me go home. A female manager told me to suck it up.
09/30/2011
Contributor: Elaira Elaira
I have no idea when/how mine was broken . . . or even if I had one for that matter.
09/30/2011
Contributor: Eucaly Eucaly
It never broke.

Years of sexual activity never broke it. It only stretched wider.
10/01/2011
Contributor: Theaadrian Theaadrian
I have no idea if mine is still intact or not...
11/14/2011
Contributor: LQ LQ
I was a gymnast as a young kid & generally very active, so I suspect it was mostly gone at a pretty early age. A bicycle & a pothole finished it off when I was about 15, but it was more like a pink sock getting in with the white laundry than any real bleeding.
11/14/2011
Contributor: GonetoLovehoney GonetoLovehoney
I crashed my bike into an electric fence. >_< I didn't realize exactly what happened until years later as I was probably around 6/7 years old. But damn, I'm glad I got rid of that useless and extremely painful piece of skin before my first time. (Which was rather dull, in my experience: sex only gets better later on,it's never amazing the first time.)
11/14/2011
Contributor: allybee allybee
i have no idea!!
11/14/2011
Contributor: Liz123 Liz123
Quote:
Originally posted by aliceinthehole
It was an interesting read, the thread on age at which one first started their menstrual cycle, and it got me thinking about my own first (scary!) experiences with puberty.

What age were you when your hymen broke?
How did it come about?


I really have no idea.
11/16/2011
Contributor: Sunshineamine Sunshineamine
I broke it masturbating when I was super young, like ten. It hurt so I never tried inserting anything after that (well now I do.) I wanted to know what sex felt like and I tried using a marker. Bad idea and I'm not sure how the hell I really knew what sex was. Probably shoudln't have known then. When I was fifteen it must have grown back because my little high school boyfriend broke it fingering me. Hmm.... Hadn't thought about that in a long, long while.
11/17/2011
Contributor: Drakoni Drakoni
It was either on a tampon or while horseback riding. I'm not 100% sure which one.
11/17/2011
Contributor: AU AU
Quote:
Originally posted by aliceinthehole
wow, really!? i cant imagine how that would do it.


mine broke with a tampon at age 14 or so. tampons had been getting stuck on it while trying to remove them for months. i think my hymen was just a little line of skin across the opening ... more
Hymens are often worn down with activity like biking, horse riding, so on. Which we now know to make "virginity tests" kind of pointless...
12/08/2011
Contributor: AU AU
From what I've read and from experience, I assume hymens can be torn gradually from various activities. I was surprised when, after my "first time" that there was any blood at all. There wasn't much. Maybe it wasn't from my hymen, but I assumed it was.
12/08/2011
Contributor: ToyGurl ToyGurl
I have no idea... lol
12/10/2011