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Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent harmful effect on an individual's quality of life. [ 1 ] In the modern era , the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] referring to alterations that render something inferior, dysfunctional, imperfect, or ugly.
Genital modification and mutilation: Female genital mutilation; Clitoral hood reduction – removal of the clitoral hood; Clitoridectomy – removal of the clitoris; Infibulation – removal of the external genitalia (and suturing of the vulva) Labiaplasty – alteration (removal, reduction, enhancement, or creation) of the labia
Emasculation was one form of genital mutilation practiced by the Skoptsy, a Russian Christian sect. For males, the other form of mutilation available was castration. Females could remove their nipples, breasts, labia majora , labia minora or clitoris . [ 36 ]
Posting on Truth Social, Trump said, "Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of ...
Some have used bodily fluids such as blood, faeces and urine. Other times they perform self-mutilation. Simulated (artificial) blood has also been used. [1] In the 1960s and 1970s extreme performance was elevated to a movement with the Viennese actionists. In recent times there has been a resurgence in extreme performance as a response to the ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
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It was one of several documented types of public mutilation in the conflict used to terrorize people away from their land. Others included killing a pregnant woman, extracting the fetus and placing it on her body and replacing it with a rooster; stuffing the genitals of dead men into their mouths; and the "flower-vase-cut" where the victim's ...