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Sarah Jones-Green waited until her wedding night to have sex, only to discover that she has a rare medical condition that makes intercourse painful
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The London-based marketer, 44, said she and her husband, Martin, couldn’t figure out “how to have sex without pain”
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“I’m a virgin bride,” said Jones-Green, who is awaiting surgery to repair the condition, called a microperforate hymen
A woman who waited until her wedding night to have sex discovered she has a medical condition where her hymen (the tissue that surrounds the vaginal opening) is “unusually rigid” — and now, she needs surgery before she can have sex.
Sarah Jones-Green, 44, waited until she was married to have sex because she thought it was “something special.”
“I didn’t want to give myself to just anyone — someone I could eventually break up with or in a one-night stand,” the London-based marketer told South West News Service, via The New York Post. She met Martin Green, 44, on a dating app in 2020, and on September 28, 2024, they tied the knot.
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“I waited four years to have sex with him,” Jones-Green said. But when they tried to have sex on their wedding night, it was too painful to continue. “We just couldn’t work out how to have sex without pain — Martin was fine, but I was really frustrated,” Jones-Green said. “I wanted to get it seen to straight away.”
The diagnosis, she said, is a microperforate hymen; It’s a rare, congenital condition where the hymen has one small hole but otherwise, covers the entire vaginal opening. As the Cleveland Clinic explains, symptoms don’t usually appear until you attempt to have sex, at which point, you may be “unable to have vaginal intercourse or experiencing pain and bleeding.”
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It can be resolved by a hymenectomy, a surgical procedure that cuts away the excess tissue to create a “typical hymen” that “exposes the vaginal opening.”
“I didn’t have any inkling about this condition before, I literally only realized something was wrong when Martin and I tried to have sex for the first time. I’d waited such a long time — I just wanted to experience what everyone else has,” Jones-Green said, describing her hymen as “unusually rigid.”
“It’s frustrating, and I’ve been feeling really down about it. I’m a virgin bride — and I don’t want to be. Having sex would make me feel like a ‘normal’ newlywed,” Jones-Green said.
Her consultation for surgery isn’t scheduled until August, something that Jones-Green said makes her “really worried.”
“I want to start a family as soon as possible,” she explained. “But I can’t, without the surgery.”
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