Twisted into knots of desire, his heart beating painfully, he eased himself into her until he finally encountered the fragile barrier.
This makes me laugh when romance books from the 80s and 90s made it seem like the hymen is painful when it breaks - ah, it’s not the flimsy membrane and is usually already broken by the time a woman has sex for the first time, it’s shoving a large appendage into a very narrow space that stretches but PAINFULLY.
