The word "cherry" is a nickname for the hymen.... why? I posted this question before and no one answered it correctly. Explain if you know, please...
2006-07-11 07:18:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Women's Health
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!! ew, ew, ew, why didn't I get that before??
2006-07-11 07:23:05 · update #1
I would think it comes from the term "popping a cherry"
If you pop.. or squeeze an actual cherry... red juice comes out. And if you take a girls virginity and break the hymen.. she will bleed and therefore produce "red juice"
by means of association, some gross guy, somewhere along the way put the similarity between the two together and it stuck. hope this helped.
2006-07-11 07:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe it is because both are red and the hymen (the blood spot that often comes out of the woman) are small like a cherry. Too, men think so highly of themselves when they "get" a virgin, they think of the "cherry" as a prize.
I can remember trying to wear an accessory that was cluster of cherries. What torment people put me through. I wouldn't give up -- I wore it anyway...
2006-07-11 07:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by cosmosclara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always imagined that it derived its street conotation from the locker room talk of "experienced" guys who, in an age of naivity, scored with a girl and this was the slang that they came up with to describe the "red" of both the woman's genitalia and (perhaps) the blood from the broken hymen.
For example, when a car is in mint condition, and "unspoiled" boy-men apply the same term - Cherry - to the vehicle.
This must stem (no pun intended) from the idea that "cherry" = virginous and "unspoiled".
Does THAT qualify as a "correct" answer in your book? : )
2006-07-11 07:26:44 · answer #3 · answered by Atticus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word "cherry" in french means maidenhead or virginity. So it is a borrowed term from the French language which has become common slang in America.
2006-07-11 07:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1236, from Anglo-Fr. cherise (taken as a pl.), from O.N.Fr. cherise, from V.L. *ceresia, from late Gk. kerasian "cherry," from Gk. kerasos "cherry tree," possibly from a language of Asia Minor. O.E. had ciris "cherry" from W.Gmc. form of the V.L. word, but it died out after the Norman invasion and was replaced by the French word. Meaning "maidenhead, virginity" is from 1889, U.S. slang, from supposed resemblance to the hymen, but perhaps also from the long-time use of cherries as a symbol of the fleeting quality of life's pleasures. Cherry-pick, in a pejorative sense, first recorded 1972.
2006-07-11 07:23:15 · answer #5 · answered by juliax65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is blood because the hymen is ripped. The hymen isn't in the vagina, but it's part of the vulva (the external genital organs). It’s located outside the vagina. The hymen is a layer of tissue, just like the tissue around the opening of your vagina that partially conceals the vaginal orifice. and it resembles a bloddy cherry!
2006-07-11 07:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by blah blah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whern the hymen is torn, a woman bleeds. When a cherry is crushed, it also flows red.
It didn't take much of a leap of imagination to connect the two.
2006-07-11 07:21:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe beause blood is red like a cherry juice stain
2006-07-11 07:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they just call it that because when it pops like a cherry, it looks like cherry juice. pretty gross actually
2006-07-11 07:21:44 · answer #9 · answered by jenny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine because it bleeds when broken but that is just a guess
2006-07-11 07:27:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋