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  • jivandabeastAto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneIt's never over rule
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    22 days ago

    No, but this is an insanely popular show from 18 years ago.

    It’s well past the common courtesy of not openly discussing spoilers online. No different than posting something referring to Ross/Rachel, Jim/Pam, The Sopranos, Darth Vader being Luke’s father, Luke/Leia being siblings, etc

    Editing to add, it’s your job when watching an old show to avoid spoilers. I managed to watch the entirety of the Sopranos for the first time a few months ago without getting any spoilers, because I just skipped over anything that referenced it without actually reading it. Very simple, you see a character you know -> you skip.

    Another example: although Better Call Saul is also in the zeitgeist, I’ve managed to steer clear of spoilers for it so nothing will be ruined when I do.

    These shows are old & popular, it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to avoid talking about them in perpetuity




  • Few of us would have been told that it can change with age, that some of us aren’t born with one, or that it might totally disappear by the time we enter sexual maturity anyway. Or that a wide variety of activity can stretch or tear it, from exercise to masturbation to, yes, penetrative sex.

    Emphasis mine, this is what I was taught in school

    But this doesn’t mean there’s any validity to the idea that you can ascertain sexual activity with a hymen examination. One small study of 36 pregnant teenagers published in 2004, for example, found that medical staff were only able to make “definitive findings of penetration” in two cases. Another 2004 study found that 52% of sexually active adolescent girls interviewed had “no identifiable changes to the hymenal tissue”. A binary idea that either we are sexually active and have no visible hymen, or that we aren’t sexually active and do have one, is simply not accurate.

    So TIL, it’s not actually a membrane and is not guaranteed to tear at some point. Really interesting read, and definitely an example of how women’s health research is just riddled with misinformation