Our sick society...
Study in 1997 --> 168,000 girls & women in the U.S. had or were at risk to have clitoroplasty. Poppas CUTS OFF parts of the perfectly healthy, albeit-larger-than-we'd-like clitoris, the only organ in either sex whose only known function is sexual pleasure. "Post-op visits with the doctor and his VIBRATOR do the girls no good -- what can the doctor do if a girl reports no sensation? reassemble her clit?"
The head of the pediatric urology department at Cornell University's New York Presbyterian Hospital -- ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the country -- has been operating on young girls who suffer (in his and the parent's opinion) from oversized clitorises.
In order to relieve these girls from what seems like little more than a cosmestic issue, the doctor cuts out parts of the clitoris' shaft, saving the glans, or tip, for reattachment. The horrors of clitoroplasties aside, this particular brand of FGM adds an extra layer of psychological damage: Poppas used a vibrator to test little girls' clitoral sensation. Q-tips and finger stimulation were also used but don't worry - parents were always present while the children were "stimulated".
The equivalent to this is for a male to have an inch of his penis shaft cut off and the tip of his cock sewn back on. Hmmm... I wonder...Do you think there would be any psychological and physiological repercussions from THAT?
REF: http://www.alternet.org/story/147254/after_cutting_little_girls'_clitorises,_ivy_league_doctor_tests_handiwork_with_a_vibrator?page=1
