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Tests and procedures involving the female reproductive system
Clitoridectomy or clitorectomy is the surgical removal, reduction, or partial removal of the clitoris . [1] It is rarely used as a therapeutic medical procedure, such as when cancer has developed in or spread to the clitoris. It is often performed on intersex newborns. Commonly, non-medical removal of the clitoris is performed during female genital mutilation (FGM). [2]
A clitoridectomy is often done to remove malignancy or necrosis of the clitoris. This is sometimes done along with a radical complete vulvectomy. Surgery may also become necessary due to therapeutic radiation treatments to the pelvic area. [3]
Removal of the clitoris may be due to malignancy or trauma. [3] [4]
Female infants born with a 46,XX genotype but have genitalia affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia and are treated surgically with vaginoplasty that often reduces the size of the clitoris without its total removal. The atypical size of the clitoris is due to an endocrine imbalance in utero. [1] [5] Other reasons for the surgery include issues involving a microphallus and those who have Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster disorder. Treatments on children raise human rights concerns. [6]
Clitoridectomy surgical techniques are used to remove an invasive malignancy that extends to the clitoris. Standard surgical procedures are followed in these cases. This includes evaluation and biopsy. Other factors that will affect the technique selected are age, other existing medical conditions, and obesity. Other considerations are the probability of extended hospital care and the development of infection at the surgical site. [3]
The surgery proceeds with the use of general anesthesia, and prior to the vulvectomy/clitoridectomy an inguinal lymphyadenectomy is first done. The extent of the surgical site extends one to two centimeters beyond the boundaries of malignancy. Superficial lymph nodes may also need to be removed. If the malignancy is present in muscular tissue in the region, it is also removed. In some cases, the surgeon is able to preserve the clitoris though the malignancy may be extensive. The cancerous tissue is removed and the incision is closed. [3]
Post operative care may employ the use of suction drainage to allow the deeper tissues to heal toward the surface. Follow up after surgery includes the stripping of the drainage device to prevent blockage. A typical hospital stay can be up to two weeks. The site of the surgery is left unbandaged to allow for frequent examination. [3]
Complications can be the development of lymphedema though not removing the saphenous vein during the surgery will help prevent this. In some instances, foot elevation, diuretic medication and compression stockings can reduce the build up of fluid. [3]
In a clitoridectomy for intersex infants, the clitoris is often reduced instead of removed. The surgeon cuts the shaft of the elongated phallus and sews the glans and preserved nerves back onto the stump. In a less common surgery called clitoral recession, the surgeon hides the clitoral shaft under a fold of skin so only the glans remains visible. [7]
While much feminist scholarship has described clitoridectomy as a practice aimed at controlling women's sexuality, the historic emergence of the practice in ancient European and Middle Eastern cultures may have possibly derived from ideas about intersex people and the policing of boundaries between the sexes. [8]
In the seventeenth century, anatomists remained divided on whether a clitoris was a normal female organ, with some arguing that only intersex people had one and that, if large enough to be visible, it should always be removed at birth. [9] In the 19th century, a clitoridectomy was thought by some to curb female masturbation . [10] Isaac Baker Brown (1812–1873), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London believed that the "unnatural irritation" of the clitoris caused epilepsy , hysteria , and mania , and he worked "to remove [it] whenever he had the opportunity of doing so", according to his obituary in the Medical Times and Gazette . Peter Lewis Allen writes that Brown's views caused outrage, and he died penniless after being expelled from the Obstetrical Society . [11]
Occasionally, in American and English medicine of the nineteenth century, circumcision was done as a cure for insanity. Some believed that mental and emotional disorders were related to female reproductive organs and that removing the clitoris would cure the neurosis. This treatment was discontinued in 1867. [12]
Aesthetics may determine clitoral norms. A lack of ambiguity of the genitalia is seen as necessary in the assignment of a sex to infants and therefore whether a child's genitalia is normal, but what is ambiguous or normal can vary from person to person. [13]
Sexual behavior is another reason for clitoridectomies. Author Sarah Rodriguez stated that the history of medical textbooks has indirectly created accepted ideas about the female body. Medical and gynecological textbooks are also at fault in the way that the clitoris is described in comparison to a male's penis. The importance and originality of a female's clitoris is underscored because it is seen as "a less significant organ, since anatomy texts compared the penis and the clitoris in only one direction." Rodriguez said that a male's penis created the framework of the sexual organ. [14]
Not all historical examples of clitoral surgeries should be assumed to be clitoridectomy (removal of the clitoris). In the nineteen thirties, the French psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte studied African clitoral surgical practices and showed that these often involved removal of the clitoral hood, not the clitoris. She also had a surgery done to her own clitoris by the Viennese surgeon Dr Halban, which entailed cutting the suspensory ligament of the clitoris to permit it to sit closer to her vaginal opening. These sorts of clitoral surgeries, contrary to reducing women's sexual pleasure, actually appear aimed at making coitus more pleasurable for women, though it is unclear if that is ever their actual outcome. [15]
Clitoridectomies are the most common form of female genital mutilation. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that clitordectomies have been performed on 200 million girls and women that are currently alive. The regions that most clitoridectomies take place are Asia, the Middle East and west, north and east Africa. The practice also exists in migrants originating from these regions. Most of the surgeries are for cultural or religious reasons. [16]
Clitoridectomy of women with intersex conditions is controversial when it takes place during childhood or under duress. Intersex women exposed to such treatment have spoken of their loss of physical sensation, and loss of autonomy. [17] [18] In recent years, multiple human rights institutions have criticized early surgical management of such characteristics. [19] [20] [21]
In 2013, it was disclosed in a medical journal that four unnamed elite female athletes from developing countries were subjected to gonadectomies and partial clitoridectomies after testosterone testing revealed that they had an intersex condition. [22] [23] In April 2016, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on health, Dainius Pūras, condemned this treatment as a form of female genital mutilation "in the absence of symptoms or health issues warranting those procedures." [24]
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CHICAGO --- Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just controversial cultural rites performed in foreign countries.
A new book from a Northwestern Medicine® medical historian reports that American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century. And physicians continue to perform female circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood) to enable women to reach orgasm, although the procedure is controversial and can result in lasting problems such as painful intercourse for some women.
In her new book “Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment” (University of Rochester Press, 2014), Sarah Rodriguez, a lecturer in medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examines this largely unexplored history of clitoral surgeries and how they reflect medical and cultural views of ‘appropriate’ female sexuality through the last century and a half.
“The medical view was to change the female body to treat a girl or woman’s ‘faulty’ sexual behavior, such as masturbation or difficulty having an orgasm, rather than questioning the narrowness of what counted as culturally appropriate behavior,” said Rodriguez, who also is a lecturer in global health studies at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. “This practice is still alive and well in the United States as part of the trend in female cosmetic genital surgery.”
In her book, Rodriguez explores how these procedures were meant to normalize girls and women into a particular heterosexual ideal with the underlying goal of directing their sexual behavior to married, heterosexual and vaginal intercourse.
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this is a sub for people considering a clitorectomy for themselves or their child or people who have had a clitorectomy and wish to discuss the positive benefits it had on their life or for men who are interested in discussing how clitorectomy can empower a young female's life or help their marriage. Dr Baker is the pioneer of clitorectomy for marital strife. He is the hero of this sub.
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I'm nervous to discuss my clitorectomy on this forum but I saw it was a positive community so I made this account. I had a clitorectomy with no anesthesia when I was 9. I strongly believe anesthesia should not be used because it is dangerous to the child. plus it helped me remember the experience.
I don't want to talk about the procedure or aftermath just now..... because... well it was brutal.
The first time after the procedure that I attempted to touch that "area" was quite the experience, (for starts touching their was prohibited until after the procedure but I did break the rules at night)
I layed on the bed and touched there and my eyes essentially bulged out of my head. Eyes wide open, "I could not believe how different it felt" There is more to the story but I am too embarssed to talk about ….. I am looking for support from people that it is ok to not have a clitoris
I have 3 daughters and the oldest is 6. I want clitorectomies for only 2 of them, I think it would be better to have one daughter without the procedure, but my reason is hard too explain. fortunately I divorced my husband and have custody so i'll be using his money to do it but he doesn't have any input on the decision
Of course it is ok to not have a clitoris. You are a blessed individual. That is why this forum exists to encourage and support the procedure, Unless it is a money issue I suggest u do it for all 3 daughters. Unfortunately it isn't covered by insurance, although some plans may cover it. I think they all should.
op can you be sure to post the experiences of your daughter when she has the positive life enhancing procedure performed on her?
well I have been talking to my oldest daughter about the clitorectomy procedure. she is nervous about it but I told her it is important she get it; however, I need her to save her allowance to pay for the procedure.
My youngest daughter was very supportive and encouraged her to not be scared. She wanted to know what the clitorectomy did, and I told her it fixes problems with that area on your body that makes you feel weird.
So I touched it and said see how that feels right there. She said yes mom, and I told her the clitorectomy will make that area feel the way it is supposed to. So she said she would have it done but was scared because she has never had surge
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