does the masturbation damage the hymen?
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depends on what type of masturbation, if you are using penatration, then yes you can bust your hymen. And you might not even realize it. Some women experience no pain, or bleeding when their hymen breaks, and some women actually break it from using tampons. If you are only using clitoral stimulation, then no, you will not damage your hymen.
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A hymen can be broken by other means than sex, and it is possible for a hymen not to break during sex. As a result, an intact hymen or lack of one (and bleeding or lack of same) is not a true indicator of virginity.
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It could if your hymen isn't broken.  You will want to make sure that you are adequately lubricated, too.
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If the hymen is broken, it can be broken by a tampon. I didnt bleed. You'll be OK.
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Depends on how you are abusing it. Oh, and by the way, my guess is you are talking about masturbation, and no the is not abuse and will not affect performance. On the other hand if you are sticking needles in it or hanging weights off it, or slamming it in the door, yes, it could hurt your performance.Careful with that thing.
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Often they do, but not always.  If your hymen has been broken through sports or activity, there may not be any blood at all.
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No, the Bible has no comment about masturbation, but does cover just about every other thing you can do with it.  It is not a sin unless you try to hurt someone else by doing it in front of them without their permission.\n\nSpilling Seed: The Bible tells a story whereby God commands this guy to have sex with a girl and get her pregnant.  During intercourse, the guy withdrew early, squirted his semen on the ground, and the girl did not get pregnant.  So God smited the guy - not because his semen hit the ground, but because he DISOBEYED God.  \n\nAnyway, it wasn't even true masturbation, it was real sex, and yes, it was commanded by God.  I don't remember what that guy's problem was.  If I was God, I would have smited him too.\n\nAlso, unlike killing people and stealing, you don't have a choice when it comes to masturbation.  For guys, its biologically required.  Its no more a sin than breathing, pooping and peeing.\n\nTo the girl down below:  MASTURBATION DOES NOT MAKE YOU A HOMOSEXUAL!\n\nLust issue: Its totally possible to masturbate without lusting.  It will likely happen in your sleep if you fail to keep a regular schedule.\n\nBlindness: I hope you aren't really stupid enough to believe anybody who says it will make you go blind.  Biology says its good for you.  So unless you poke yourself in the eye with your stiff prick, you'll not likely go blind.\n\nFornication: This is sexual intercourse outside of marriage.  Masturbation is NOT the same as sexual intercourse.\n\nCatholicism: The Pope has a lot of strange rules about sex.  For example, wearing a condom is a sin.  Its a sin for a priest to marry.  However none of this is actually in the Bible.\n\nI most certainly do not think Jesus was nearly as stuck up as some Christians are.  I know for a fact that He also masturbated because He was male and at that time, He was also human.
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Health and psychological effects\nIt is held in many mental health circles that masturbation can relieve depression and lead to a higher sense of self-worth. Masturbation can also be particularly useful in relationships where one partner wants more sex than the other—in which case masturbation provides a balancing effect and thus a more harmonious relationship.\n\nBoth from the standpoint of avoiding unwanted pregnancy and that of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, masturbation is the safest of sexual practices. There is no credible scientific or medical evidence that manual masturbation is damaging to either one's mental or physical health.\n\nA man whose penis has suffered "an invasive procedure, blunt trauma or injury during intercourse"[2] may suffer later in life from Peyronie's disease. Usually in the context of an abnormal tunica albuginea, the rare event of penile fracture[3] may occur. Phimosis is "a contracted foreskin (that) may cause trouble by hurting when an attempt is made to pull the foreskin back"[4]. In each of these cases, overly aggressive manipulation of the penis can be problematic.\n\nContrary to popular myth, masturbation does not cause blindness. There is some basis, however, to the myth: zinc is required both to transport vitamin A from the liver to the retina and is excreted in relatively high amount in semen. Thus, it is not inconceivable that in zinc-deficient or vitamin A-deficient environments excessive male masturbation could have caused night blindness (in which case sexual intercourse has an equal probability of causing blindness). Given a normal contemporary diet, however, this is extremely unlikely to happen. There is also the more modern issue of staring at a computer screen while watching pornography for extended periods of time as the pupils tend to dilate during arousal.\n\nThe only side-effects recorded are that repeated masturbation may result in tiredness or soreness, which tend to make repeated masturbation self-limiting in any case. For men, the volume of ejaculate is temporarily reduced after multiple ejaculations until normal seminal volume is regained in a day or so. Nevertheless, people may experience feelings of guilt during or after masturbation, especially if they come from a socially conservative or religious background.\n\nSolitary masturbation carries no risk of pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. Masturbation involving both a man and a woman can result in pregnancy only if semen contacts the vulva. Any masturbation with a partner can theoretically result in transmission of sexually transmitted disease by contact with bodily fluids, and such contact should be avoided with any partner whose disease status is uncertain. Objects inserted into the vagina or anus should be clean and of a kind that will not scratch or break. Care should be taken not to fully insert anything into the anus—any object used should have a flared or flanged base; otherwise retrieval can require a visit to the emergency room. Most modern dildos and anal plugs are designed with this feature.\n\nIn 1994, when the first woman appointed Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, mentioned as an aside that perhaps it ought to be mentioned in school curricula that masturbation was safe and healthy, she was forced to resign, with opponents asserting that she was promoting the teaching of how to masturbate. Many believe this was the result of her long history of promoting controversial viewpoints and not due solely to her public mention of masturbation. Her case led to the coining of a new and humorous slang term for masturbation: Firing the surgeon general.\n\nOn July 16, 2003, an Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council published a medical study [5] which concluded that frequent masturbation by males may help prevent the development of prostate cancer. The study also indicated that this would be more helpful than ejaculati
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There is no accurate way to tell if a woman is a virgin or not. Even checking her hymen is fairly inaccuarate, because there are many things that can cause it to break, from strenuous athletic activity, particularly gymnastics, to inserting tampons and masturbating. Aside from the hymen, there are no physical or even chemical signs of the loss of virginity.
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MASTURBATION MYTHS:\nfrom http://www.jackinworld.com/library/myths.html\n\nChances are, of all the things you've heard about masturbation, most of them were absolutely false. For some reason, misinformation surrounds masturbation like virtually no other topic. How do you spot a masturbation myth? One simple method is to ask yourself if the statement is also true of sexual intercourse. When you're masturbating, your body only knows it's getting sexually stimulated; it doesn't know by what means. So, for instance, if the question is whether or not masturbation causes acne, think of it this way: If it did, intercourse would also cause acne. In fact, neither masturbation nor intercourse cause acne.\n\nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair to grow on your palms.\nFACT:\nHow many people with hair on their palms have you seen?  \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes hair loss, chronic fatigue, and other problems.\nFACT:\nInternet scam artists have tried to invent a concept called "overmasturbation," insisting that you have to buy their expensive herbal pills in order to counteract the effect of masturbating more than a couple of times per week. But the pills have absolutely no effect — and masturbating once or twice a day will not make your hair fall out, or cause anything else they claim.\nMYTH:\nMasturbation is bad for your eyesight. \nFACT:\nMasturbation does not affect eyesight. This myth probably originated because boys often start having to wear glasses at about the same age they start masturbating. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes your penis to stop growing (or) to get bigger. \nFACT:\nMasturbation has no effect on penis size whatsoever. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes your testicles to shrink.\nFACT:\nAbsolutely false! It is true that if you're highly aroused, your testicles become engorged with blood and may appear slightly larger and heavier, and that masturbating will make them revert to normal. But they will absolutely not be any smaller than after the last time you masturbated. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes acne. \nFACT:\nIt doesn't cause acne. Like the eyesight myth, this is a case of two things that happen at the same time, even though one doesn't cause the other. \nMYTH:\nMasturbation causes sexually transmitted diseases. \nFACT:\nHello? "Sexually transmitted" means from one person to another. You can't give yourself a sexually transmitted disease! \nMYTH:\nIf you masturbate too much, you'll run out of semen and become sterile. \nFACT:\nSemen is a fully renewable resource. When you ejaculate semen, your body simply makes more — the same way your body makes more saliva after you spit. \nMYTH:\nPeople can tell whether you masturbate by how your penis looks.
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No, it won't tear.  The hymen is located inside, but not everyone has a hymen, and it's possible to accidentally tear it anyway.
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The hymen is a membrane that covers the vaginal opening before a woman's first intercourse. It is not, however, a solid mass of tissue; it has perforations in it. Often, the entire central portion of the hymen is open, with a thick rim of tissue all around. This allows menstrual blood to escape and tampons to be inserted without disrupting the hymen. Even heavy menstrual bleeding passes without tearing the hymen.\nRarely, the hymen is a solid wall of tissue, and this must be opened shortly after menstruation begins. If not, the blood will fill the vagina and uterus, leading to pain and -- possibly -- an increased risk of developing endometriosis.
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Yes, the excessive masturbation always affects adversely on sperm production. But you can replenish the sperm by eating oysters, meat, eggs, and drink a lot of milk.
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Just because you use a tampon dosen't mean you'll break your hymen. However, if you've already broken it you won't break it again when you have sex for the first time. Its important to remember that a lot of girls loose their hymen before their virginity. It can break very easily. I broke mine in a car accident and a friend of mine broke hers while riding a horse. Also, a lot of females have what is called a cribform hymen, which is just a lot of strings of skin stretching across the inside of your vagina. Its more then possible that IF you're tampon is reaching that far then its just going through one of the holes. If you're still concerned then maybe you should speak with your gynocologist and have them check for a hymen or have them explain things for you a little better.
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It depends how she masurbate. if she just rubs her clitoris there are less chances for breaking but if she inserts something inside vagina nsurely the hymen will get breaked
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no...  Lots of women have already had their hymens broken by various activities that may or not involve sexual activity other than intercourse (tampon use occassionally, riding horses, etc etc etc).
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As far as physically not necessarily, as the hymen can tear for other reasons including tampon usage and sports.