I just listened to a gynecologist discussing this on You Tube, and she said that the purpose of the hymen is to protect the vagina from urine and feces until the child is potty-trained. Makes sense to me.
And she totally agreed that this is wrong on every level.
Are there accepted medical standards for when a parent can be/should be in the room with post-pubescent minors? Because I wouldn’t want to be there with ANY of my teen/nearly-teen children unless they expressed an explicit desire for it (or at any rate, I’d be on the other side of the curtain). Once they’re old enough to want their body-privacy, they deserve to have it
If the doctor, on the other hand, says “it’s not generally our practise to have parents in the room with kids over 12 - is there any particular reason why you want to?” then that’s on the doctor, rather than the daughter, right? And might make the dad think a bit (if he’s capable of that :mad:)
I mean really - a grown-ass dude can’t think of ANY reason why his daughter might not want him watching her gynae exam apart from “she had sex and is hiding it from me”? Hard to swallow that.
“I’m not a gynecologist, but I play one on the Internet.”
There is no accepted physiological reason for the existence of the hymen. This gynecologist either has this as a pet theory or read it on Facebook or whatever.