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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women
Subject: Re: The Unanswered Question(s), part 2
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Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 05:35:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  7 05:35:41 1984
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Greetings:
	I was given to understand that the primary function of the hymen had to
do with protection of the internal reproductive organs during the woman's first
10 to 20 years of life (i.e. before use) in an aquatic environment, which some
people believe was an evolutionary stage which our ancestors frequented.  Sea
water being full of things besides H20 and NaCl, particularly at a seashore
where waves stir up everything into the water, it would certainly have been
a favorable natural selection criteria to not become infected thereby.
{ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny	(Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)