As to the comments on women and clitorectomy, that is practiced in some African societies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The first word I thought of was "clitorectomy". said Miss Cellania on April 2, 2008 2:37 PM. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I am neither female, nor African ... but still I think maybe the people who agitate (understandably) against this practice would get further if instead of calling it "circumcision" (which is most definitely is not), they called it "clitoridectomy" (or at least it's country cousin, "clitorectomy"). ❋ Aka TBTAM (2009)
I learned early in my career that if I was delivering a women who had had a previous clitorectomy, I needed to cut a good episiotomy, even if she had had prior children, because the scarred upper portion of her genital tract would massively tear at delivery. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2009)
The natural allies to young women in societies practicing clitorectomy are actually young men who want their partners to experience sexual pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The climax is a clitorectomy, executed with a pair of scissors, right in the audience's face. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Due for release later this month, the film shocks with a scene of deteriorating madwoman Charlotte Gainsbourg (She) performing a clitorectomy on herself -- after bashing, then jacking off, her semi-conscious husband Willem Dafoe (He) who spews semen mixed with blood. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is so relentlessly "sick", its unleashed cruelty so sadistic (the climax is a graphic clitorectomy) that the audience at the premiere booed and hissed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A radical clitorectomy is not the only kind of FGM. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Just console yourself with the thought that one day this woman will either be forced to convert to Islam, submit to a clitorectomy and wear a burqa, or she will be slowly strangled by being hanged from a crane jib. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)
That's how Aminatta Forna describes clitorectomy -- female circumcision. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A conversation with her moves effortlessly from the story of her clitorectomy as a young girl to the Hollywood film where she first saw a boy and girl kiss in public to a book she is writing which imagines a doubting Prophet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If you are performing a clitorectomy on a 13 year old girl, you are wrong and I have no problem with opposing that cultural practice. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A court should not give custody of a girl to a Muslim father who might want his daughter to have a clitorectomy when she becomes an adolescent. ❋ Unknown (2007)
…And then announced that clitorectomy did no harm at all? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Would you support an African study that compared women who had had clitorectomy with those that had not, while deliberately failing to measure the sensitivity of the clitoris itself? ❋ Unknown (2007)
When someone else does something that our society and philosophy hold to be wrong - clitorectomy or 'honour killing' to choose two ghastly examples - do we hold our tongues because those practices are acceptable - supposedly - to their mores? ❋ Susan Palwick (2007)
Have we heard from the folks who valiantly oppose clitorectomy for African girls? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
During [puberty], in certain [countries] [in Africa], a clitorectomy is performed on young women. ❋ Jürgen (2006)
