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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Clitor(id)ectomy
Message-ID: <978@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 19:12:04 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.978
Posted: Wed Mar 13 19:12:04 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Mar-85 01:43:01 EST
References: <156@osiris.UUCP> <205@rtech.ARPA> <1067@utastro.UUCP> <1269@ut-sally.UUCP> <1073@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <1073@utastro.UUCP> ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) writes:
>At this point I think we do need references, or some knowledgeable netters.
>I think that there are various degrees of clitorectomy practiced.  Perhaps
>some of them, like male circumcision, do not affect sexual function.  Radical
>clitorectomy surely must.

I'm not an expert on the forms of clitoridectomy practiced, but I'm sure that
if the operation involved only removing the clitoral hood, it would increase
sexual pleasure in exactly the same manner as circumcision is supposed to.
In fact the operations would be analogous as the clitoris is thought (by
Shere Hite among others) to be the homologue in women of the male penis.

Radical removal of the clitoris would certainly reduce pleasure as our culture
defines it, but IF the so-called G-spot exists it would be possible that
some cultures would place more emphasis on it than on the clitoris. (No
flames on G-spot, I know Shere Hite's opinions on that one too.)

                                       --Jamie.