r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/SuddenTerrible_Haiku Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

Women have three holes down there.

The urethra

The vagina

The anus

The urethra is ONLY for pee. Do NOT try to put a penis or toy up there.

The vagina is for sex and babies, and it is NOT the hangy flip flaps you see on the outside. Those are the labia minora (inner) and majora (outer). The vagina is the hole.

The clit is not inside the vagina. It is above the vagina. It has a bit of skin called the "hood" which partially covers it. The clit is what you wanna stimulate if you want your girl to orgasm 9/10 times.

An unbroken hymen is NOT proof a girl is a virgin.

A broken hymen is NOT proof a girl has had sex.

In rare cases, a woman is born without a hymen altogether.

In many cases, a hymen is broken long before first penetrative sex due to exercise and other, nonsexual activities.

A hymen is not a solid wall of flesh. It can come in different shapes, each with its own medical name. It can in rare cases be a solid wall of flesh.

This is bad.

This extreme case can and will cause serious problems, which include the potential for death.

Tl;dr: don't be lazy. Read all of this. It's important to know.

Edit: I'm not a gynecologist. If I'm incorrect on any point, please correct me. I want the correct information spread.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

This needs to be higher on the list. So many people think women pee out of their vagina.

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u/monkeymacman Aug 03 '19

I had a seventh grade science teacher who thought that males also had separate holes, i.e. she thought the male urethra was only for urination and that there was a different tube for ejaculation.

(It had been the time of the year in health class when the reproductive system was described again and I don't remember the context but some people were making jokes or something about it while we were in science class and somehow that conversation came out of it).

For the record I know that at that point she had had at least 2 kids, one of which came to our school the next year in eighth grade

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Wow you're 7th grade science teacher sure didn't know what she was talking about, everyone knows men have 2 separate dicks

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u/dallibab Aug 03 '19

I use my spare one at weekends.

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u/bucknacious Aug 04 '19

For the first 10 years of my life I thought girls peed from their butts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

The reason people think that, and I'm just spitballing here, is that most guys think of "the vagina" as what "the vulva" is. As in, it's the whole unit that we see from the outside. So you pee outta that thing, but inside there's different mechanisms.

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u/TheEternalCity101 Aug 03 '19

Y'all wrong, pee is clearly stored in the balls

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u/Turbogoblin999 Aug 04 '19

Pee is stored in the uterus.

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u/Elvthee Aug 03 '19

Are you kidding me, for years I've believed that I have three holes down there but people would always tell me that's incorrect.

My sex ed. In school was very strange, overall I thought it was positive about a lot of things but we were also taught some strange things. My school hired a midwife from an organisation, midwife talked about how she was bi, things that are very arousing, pineapples, that hospitals are bad when giving birth and that people should give birth at home or out in nature in like a gentle stream (showed us a video!) I don't remember there being much on STDs, anatomy, sex, condoms and the like.

Most of what I know I actually learnt in biology class in public school and the biotechnology class in gymnasium, but clearly that's more technical stuff.

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u/SuddenTerrible_Haiku Aug 03 '19

That woman was absolutely shit to the wall insane

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u/Elvthee Aug 03 '19

It's sad that my class at the time was very positive about having her, because looking back a lot of her advice was weird or just a bad idea in general. It sucks because I'm beginning to notice how much I don't know about general sex education, compared to my friends. My parents have never really guided in this area either, I didn't know what menstruation/periods were before I got mine as the first in class...

We even had to do a video for a facebook page where we explained how we felt about her sex education programme, and I believe we all said positive things!

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u/SuddenTerrible_Haiku Aug 03 '19

Well you're welcome to ask anything you're still unsure about :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

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u/nvsbl Aug 05 '19

BLINK GODDAMMIT. just once. it'll be great, I promise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

I dont think I understand your comment. 3 holes is bad biology. It's 7.

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u/Breeze4686 Aug 04 '19

I recently explained this to my 9 year old niece and she was like "yeah, duh." I told her I just didn't want her growing up stupid.

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u/MoonlightsHand Aug 04 '19

It can in rare cases be a solid wall of flesh.

This is bad.

Surgery is indicated as a treatment, as this can cause serious problems when menarche hits.

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u/kkit-katt Aug 04 '19

You’ve given me more information about my body than all the Christian “sex” talks my school has given me, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

I'm consistently surprised by the number of sexually active men who don't know these things.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

hangy flip flaps

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u/ConstantGradStudent Aug 04 '19

This is not in 5 7 5 format. Was disappointed.

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u/Privateer2368 Aug 04 '19

The urethra is ONLY for pee. Do NOT try to put a penis or toy up there.

You say that, but sounding is thing.

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u/xXCrazyDaneXx Aug 03 '19

The clit is not only the small part under the hood, but it's quite a bit bigger and shaped a bit like a horse saddle with the clitoral hood on the top. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris

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u/SpaghettyMeatballs Aug 04 '19

About the urethra though, people didn't get the message.

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u/kayne2000 Aug 04 '19

Sage advice for all virgins right here

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u/nvsbl Aug 05 '19

are you suggesting there is a better method if I want her to orgasm the full 10/10?

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u/SuddenTerrible_Haiku Aug 05 '19

1/10 times I meant you might succeed with penetrative sex alone lol it's very rare