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Psychosexual aspects of hymen

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The myth of Hymen may reveal the source of the dangers of the vagina as seen clinically. Hymen is characterized as a hidden instigator and may represent father who has been incorporated by mother. Both become, in effect, castrators.

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    Robert Seidenberg M. D.

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Seidenberg, R. Psychosexual aspects of hymen. Psych Quar 25, 472–474 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01584294

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