How can you know if you have a hymen?

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A female reader, tennisstar88  + ?, writes (6 November 2010):

It's not it's mucous membrane.

A male reader, B. Shakey  +, writes (6 November 2010):

I never knew the hymen was a bone. ...............................   

A female reader, tennisstar88  + ?, writes (6 November 2010):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymen ...............................   

A male reader, The Realist  + ?, writes (6 November 2010):

The hymen isn't really an important bone and to my knowledge it is a bone or piece of cartilage that actually normally is detached from some other activity other than sex like crashing your bike. Technically you could get a doctor to tell you but other than that there is no way to know for sure. If you are worried about virginity the hymen actually doesn't play a huge role because of the issue I said above. If you haven't had sex then you are a virgin. No other action technically counts but that is based on opinion. ...............................   

A male reader, strongfp  + ?, writes (6 November 2010):

Every woman has a hymen it will never go away or 'break' it just stretches and expands as you become more sexually or you are heavy into sports it will just become more loose and more resiliant to insertion. To check, well just take my word for it, you got one. ...............................   

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