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latchkey on Oct 17, 2022 | hide | past | favorite



The doctors can easily go to Africa and study sample clitori, which are discarded during the widely prevalent clitorectomy.

Mountains of sample human flesh materials to study for many years to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_female_genital_m...


The issue discussed in the posted article isn't about a lack of supply.... [Here's an archived link.](https://archive.ph/2Kn0J)

One interesting paragraph about midway down:

>Dr. Helen O’Connell, Australia’s first female urologist, recalled that in her own medical training, the clitoris barely made a cameo. In the 1985 edition of the medical textbook “Last’s Anatomy” that she studied, a cross-section of the female pelvis omitted the clitoris entirely, and aspects of the female genitals were described as “poorly developed” and a “failure” of male genital formation. Descriptions of the penis went on for pages. To her, this widespread medical disregard helped explain why her urology peers worked to preserve nerves in the penis during prostate surgeries but not during pelvic surgeries on women.




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