What do popping cherry mean

Because there are other ways you can tear it besides sex. Rigorous exercise, gymnastics, horseback riding, cycling, using large tampons, manipulation with a finger, or a pelvic exam are all possible but not surefire ways to tear your hymen, she says. If the tissue does tear during sex, you may find intercourse painful and experience bleeding, she explains. But if the tear occurs during gymnastics or from wearing large tampons, for example, you may not even be aware of it.

And if you do notice it break, it just goes off to the side or sloughs off never to be dealt with again. We've Added New Words! Cherries as a sexual metaphor are suggested as early as the s—though fruit in general has long been sexual, if you look to, say, the forbidden fruit in the biblical Garden of Eden. As popping cherries is about firsts, pop the cherry can be used figuratively for doing something one has never done before.

First time you dived off a cliff? Popped your cherry. Still, the phrase has a playfulness and youthfulness. It refers to the theory that your hymen the thin tissue at the opening of your vagina breaks during sex, which might cause bleeding hence the red color of the cherry. But how do you know if you popped your cherry or not?

Especially when, newsflash, whether one's hymen is or is not intact is not an indication of one's sexual history as there are multiple ways a hymen can tear that have nothing to do with intercourse. Although the usage of cherries with a sexual connotation goes even further back to the s. Lauren Demosthenes, MD, tells Romper in an email. My year old son is going to pop cherry tonight when he takes his girlfriend's virginity. Popped cherry. A popped cherry can be defined as losing ones virginity.

This can only be applied to females.