This, my friends, is utterly barbaric.

[fanciful_muse]

When most of us think of female genital mutilation, we probably think of faraway places. Well, peel off those blinders. In 1997, our very own Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 168,000 girls and women living in the United States had been or were at risk of being subjected to some form of the abhorrent practice known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Not only is FGM being practiced relatively widely in the United States, it's happening in the most hallowed halls of American medical science. In fact, the head of the pediatric urology department at Cornell University's New York Presbyterian Hospital -- which is often ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the country -- has been operating on young girls who suffer from what he (and likely the girls' guardians) have decided is "clitorimegaly," or oversized clitorises.


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[moropus.livejournal.com]

This is so freaking stupid. I have enough pride or something I have not ever gone to bed with people who were critical of me, so nobody has ever made rude comments on what I look like naked. But I expect that most people are so glad to get some that they are not going to say anything the size of your clit. Besides we are all different.

One time I did ask somebody I was having sex with if he thought my stuff was odd and he it was quite within 'average,' whatever average is and showed me a stack of those magazines to prove it.

A stack of those pictues might go a long way right now.

This is freaky child sex abuse.