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Hymen (hī`mən) or Hymenaeus (hīmənē`əs), in Greek mythology, personification of marriage, represented as a beautiful youth carrying a bridal torch and wearing a veil.

Hymen

Greek god of marriage. He was usually thought to be a son of Apollo by one of the Muses, perhaps Calliope. Other accounts called him the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. In Attic legend he was a beautiful youth who rescued a group of young women, including his beloved, from a gang of pirates. He obtained the girl in marriage, and their happy life was invoked in many wedding songs.

hymen
Anatomy a fold of mucous membrane that partly covers the entrance to the vagina and is usually ruptured when sexual intercourse takes place for the first time


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As a foreign intelligence service, the Stasi made few penetrations outside West Germany (where the term was disconcertingly literal--the Stasi specialized in so-called Romeo traps, sending handsome young spies to charm government secretaries out of not only their hymens but the documents they typed at work).
The horrors of the Stasi's East Germany by Garvin, Glenn / Reason
Reconstructing hymens or constructing sexual inequality?
Ambivalent sexism and attitudes toward women who engage in premarital ... by Glick, Peter / The Journal of Sex Research
Dracula comes from Eastern Europe, where mysterious Slavic, capitalistic people come from; and the men that set out to capture him are concerned he might have stolen English money, as well as their women's hymens.
Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary by Binning, Cheryl / Take One
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