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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Clitoridectomies
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 10:36:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 10:36:39 1985
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[ Man's inhumanity to (wo)man knows no bounds...]

>    Presently it is estimated that over 20 million women in 30 countries
> are subjected to it...  [Reasons???...]
> to safe-guard premarital chastity and virginity
> "increas[ing] the husband's pleasurable sensations during intercourse,
> 	even though for the women, sex is nothing but agony
> it brings up many interesting interrelationships between male
> dominance, patriarchies, sex, rape, pornography, prostitution, marriage,
> sex as power...

Somehow I find it pretty revolting that such mutilations are practiced just
to protect the delicate male ego from ever being compared with (the skills of)
another lover (requiring virginity of his mate), and to inflate that ego with
his own pleasure at the expense of his mate's.  Patriarchy really must die...
-- 
{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)