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[34] [35] Circumcision involves either a conventional "cut and stitch" surgical procedure or use of a circumcision instrument or device. Complications are rare. Complications are rare. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Modern proponents say that circumcision reduces the risks of a range of infections and diseases and confers sexual benefits.
1970: Nawal El Saadawi criticizes FGM in Al-Mar'a wa Al-Jins (Women and Sex). [A 12] 1972: Saadawi's The Naked Face of Women describes her own circumcision. [A 13] 1975: UN International Women's Year. American social scientist Rose Oldfield Hayes calls it "female genital mutilation" in paper on Sudan. [A 14]
Phalloplasty (also called penoplasty) [1] is the construction or reconstruction of a penis or the artificial modification of the penis by surgery. The term is also occasionally used to refer to penis enlargement .
Phalloplasty, which is the creation of a penis as part of gender-affirming care, is the only surgical procedure that requires cutting into the nerves of the clitoris.
Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last ...
It reported that 168,000 girls and women were at risk, with 48,000 under 18. [2] In 2004, the African Women's Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the PRC revamped these numbers with information from recent surveys and the 2000 U.S. census. [2] They reported 227,887 girls and women at risk in United States, with 62,519 under 18.
Following phalloplasty, in 1999, the procedure for metoidioplasty was developed for female-to-male surgical transition by the doctors Lebovic and Laub. [38] Considered a variant of phalloplasty, metoidioplasty works to create a penis out of the patient's present clitoris. This allows the patient to have a sensation-perceiving penis head. [38]
David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.