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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.women
Subject: Re: The worst (historical) surgical procedure
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 15:38:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 15:38:12 1986
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> > >...parts of the world.  But that's nothing compared to what they do in
> > >certain tribes of Africa: they sew together the labia major, leaving
> > >only a tiny hole
> > >sort of a surgical chasitity belt.
> 
> But can we really afford to throw stones?  In our own enlightned
> culture we surgically tighten up vaginas as a matter of routine.
> (Not to mention surgical breast enlargement/reduction.)  I can imagine
> that those tribes might find such procedures of our's quite barbaric!
> 

	Oh, come on, now...

	I would think a reasonable person would have to consider ELECTIVE
surgery to be somewhat less "barbaric" than holding a little girl down
and hacking off bits with an unsterilized piece of broken glass (and no
anaesthesia to boot). 

-- 
					--MKR

"I've heard you say many times that you're better than no one,
 And no one is better than you.
 If you really believe that you know you have nothing to win
 And nothing to lose."   - B. Dylan