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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.books
Subject: Re: Clitor(id)ectomy  (Re: Law and Christianity (sort of))
Message-ID: <2576@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 06:02:00 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2576
Posted: Sun Apr  7 06:02:00 1985
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Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
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Summary: 

In article <563@homxb.UUCP> hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) writes:
>
>There is an operation (mutilation) which was practiced on males

>It consists of slitting the penis on the bottom lengthwise

>this practice occurred mainly in matriarchical societies to
>limit the number of males available for families.

Elizabeth Gould Davis described a similar practice in "The First Sex", but she
said that it was to increase the pleasure of the matriarchs.  She said a lot
of interesting things in that book, but I don't know how reliable they are.

Incidentally, I heard on the news a year or so ago that she had killed herself
at the age of 64.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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