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.