# losing hymen on roller coaster **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884 "2014-08-29T16:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/1 "2014-08-29T16:49:04Z")
In this week’s column about a girl losing her hymen on a roller coaster, Cecil states: > [@](#): > > Now to your question. We scoured the medical journals for reports of hymens ruptured by roller coasters but found no definitive accounts. Anecdotes abound online but don’t constitute proof. It’s not obvious how a roller coaster would stress the hymen — while high g-forces are involved, premature hymen rupture due to external causes typically involves some kind of impact or the legs being pushed in different directions, neither of which normally happens on roller coaster rides. Newer roller coasters may have smoother rides, but older wooden frame roller coasters can be very bumpy. I friend of mine injured his tailbone riding on one. So yes, you can get impacts to the derriere. * * * LINK TO COLUMN: [Can a girl lose her virginity riding a roller coaster? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3177/can-a-girl-lose-her-virginity-riding-a-roller-coaster) ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/2 "2014-08-29T17:47:51Z")
To answer’s the girl’s question: You can’t lose your virginity on a roller coaster. Those darn _safety bars_ keep getting in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/3 "2014-08-30T01:37:42Z")
> [@qazwart](#): > > To answer’s the girl’s question: You can’t lose your virginity on a roller coaster. Those darn _safety bars_ keep getting in the way. Technically the question came from the girl’s parent. Father, I hope. Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/4 "2014-08-30T03:54:57Z")
> [@qazwart](#): > > To answer’s the girl’s question: You can’t lose your virginity on a roller coaster. Those darn _safety bars_ keep getting in the way. Leap the Dips, Altoona PA — no lap bars and no belts. Just a grab-bar you can use — for whatever you want to use it for. Actually having seen experienced riders on some of the old coasters jolted to the point of calling for paramedics, I could see such an injury on an old-style (pre-50s) coaster or one of the derby-race style coaster-like rides. Like others, I have heard the stories but the documentation isn’t really there. But it does look like it would make a great t-shirt — “She lost it on our woodie - so can you” (undercover member of ACE and the Coaster Zombies) ---
**Author:** ![Charmbrights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Charmbrights](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charmbrights)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/5 "2014-08-30T06:48:51Z")
It definitely depends on who she meets during the ride. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/6 "2014-08-30T07:55:20Z")
Plenty of girls lose their virginity in the Tunnel of Love, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/7 "2014-08-30T14:17:00Z")
According to [this Chicago Tribune article](http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-10/news/ct-met-six-flags-ride-sidebar-20120510_1_cellphones-coaster-flags-officials) plenty of cell phones and cameras are reported lost on roller coasters. But no mention of finding any lost hymens. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/8 "2014-08-31T19:30:18Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Plenty of girls lose their virginity in the Tunnel of Love, though. 🙂 That’s at least usually (I hope) on purpose. What the questioner was asking about was accidental. I would think a “Kangaroo” or “Tumble-bug/Turtle” type ride would be more likely – at least today. But again, how to document? Panty checks before and after riding? Litigation is about the best evidence we can hope for. Parks are sued for all kinds of injuries (and “injuries”) but a quick run through what I have access to doesn’t show any litigation started over a hymen. But since you mentioned it — dark rides and funhouses were more often the place for sex. In its early day, several employees had a couple “love nests” set up inside the one in Erie PA; enough so that it got the nickname “Love Shak” as opposed to its official name of “Wacky Shak”. Despite what the one TV (CSI) show used as a plot, actual sex on a rollercoaster would most often mean stopping it at the top of the lift hill or finding a damn contortionist daredevil. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/9 "2014-08-31T23:30:25Z")
I’m aware of the distinction. I was just making a joke. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-hymen-on-roller-coaster/696884/10 "2014-09-01T15:50:56Z")
Slingshot rides on the other hand… [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ugQutspw)