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  • Karin Milles: Something That Stretches During Sex - Coining A New Word For Hymen To Challenge Patriarchy

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    Virginity controls are causing great suffering to women worldwide, and hymen (re)constructions are carried out in many countries. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education launched a new term, vaginal corona, which questions the misconception that it is possible to determine if a woman has had sexual intercourse. Our study shows the success of the initiative among health professionals and teenagers. These showed a varied understanding of the word – varying from old and traditional to new and feminist ones. Feminist linguistic reform initiatives are thus usable as part of feminist political work to promote women’s sexual rights and gender equality. Keywords: feminist language reform, hymen, vaginal corona, patriarchy, sexual rights

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    Virginity controls are causing great suffering to women worldwide, and hymen (re)constructions are carried out in many countries. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education launched a new term, vaginal corona, which questions the misconception that it is possible to determine if a woman has had sexual intercourse. Our study shows the success of the initiative among health professionals and teenagers. These showed a varied understanding of the word – varying from old and traditional to new and feminist ones. Feminist linguistic reform initiatives are thus usable as part of feminist political work to promote women’s sexual rights and gender equality. Keywords: feminist language reform, hymen, vaginal corona, patriarchy, sexual rights

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    Karin Milles: Something That Stretches During Sex - Coining A New Word For Hymen To Challenge Patriarchy

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    Virginity controls are causing great suffering to women worldwide, and hymen (re)constructions are carried out in many countries. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education launched a new term, vaginal corona, which questions the misconception that it is possible to determine if a woman has had sexual intercourse. Our study shows the success of the initiative among health professionals and teenagers. These showed a varied understanding of the word – varying from old and traditional to new and feminist ones. Feminist linguistic reform initiatives are thus usable as part of feminist political work to promote women’s sexual rights and gender equality. Keywords: feminist language reform, hymen, vaginal corona, patriarchy, sexual rights

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    Something that stretches

    during sex
    Coining a new word for hymen to
    challenge patriarchy
    Karin Milles, Sdertrn University
    Kerstin Fugl-Meyer, Karolinska Institutet
    Sweden

    Honour based violence and


    the hymen
    Global problem
    Virginity and the hymen central
    concepts

    No membrane
    hymenal measurements demonstrated a high
    degree of overlapping between abused and nonabused girls
    (Myhre et al, 2003)
    the opening of the vagina among nonabused girls
    varies and // penetration seldom causes any
    physical damage
    The hymen is a metaphor and symbol of female
    virginity

    (Christianson & Eriksson, 2011)

    Swedish:
    mdomshinna
    virginity membrane

    Chinese:

    Arabic:

    Traditional word replaced by


    new:
    mdomshinna
    virginity membrane

    slidkrans
    vaginal corona

    Feminist linguistic activism


    one constant theme of the feminist critique
    is the need to change words and make them
    fitter for our use
    (Cameron, 1990)

    English:

    Ms, he or she/they, ze, outercourse, cis

    Swedish:

    Lively discussion about non-sexist/gender neutral language


    Non derogatory label for female genitals: snippa
    Gender neutral pronoun: hen

    New term for the hymen:


    vaginal corona

    It consists of folds of mucous tissue, which may


    be tightly or more loosely folded. // In the vast
    majority of cases, it is elastic and stretchy.
    Neither

    a gynecologist nor a sex partner can


    tell whether youve had // sex.

    Our study
    Informants
    health professionals at youth clinics
    young visitors to youth clinics
    Method
    Written questionnaire (WQ)

    Patriarchal views on
    hymen/virginity:
    I meet a lot of girls who are very
    anxious. Who are afraid of the pain
    caused by the first sexual
    intercourse.
    (WQ, health professional)

    [the hymen is] a membrane that


    brakes when one is having
    sex
    (WQ, youth)

    Vaginal corona popular


    among youth professionals
    120
    100
    80
    60
    40
    20
    0

    Using vaginal corona

    Not using vaginal corona

    Changing discourse?
    [the vaginal corona
    is]

    [the hymen is]

    Something that
    stretches during
    sex

    patriarchal myth to
    maintain sexual
    power over women

    a much better word


    // It is not a sign of
    virginity or sex

    used far away, way


    back to scare young
    women

    (all quotes from WQ, youths)

    Conclusions
    Belief in the hymen as sign of virginity
    is common
    Disbelief is spreading the new word
    part of the process

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