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The little tissue that couldn’t – dispelling myths about the Hymen’s role in determining sexual history and assault

Conclusions about women’s and girls’ sexual history are made in some settings based on assumptions about the hymen, a small membranous tissue with no known biological function, which typically occupies a portion of the external vaginal opening in females. Clinicians, however, continue to refer to ch...

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Autores principales: Mishori, Ranit, Ferdowsian, Hope, Naimer, Karen, Volpellier, Muriel, McHale, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31159818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0731-8