WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for July, 2001: Re: Surgery on Clitoris as child

Re: Surgery on Clitoris as child

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:17:45 -0500 (CDT)

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I"ve never heard of this procedure. Then again, I was also a kid in 1954. You may wish to contact the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Washington DC and see if any historian there can help.

HSM

At Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Merle wrote: >
>I am a 51 yr. old woman with 3 kids. I am presently dealing with
>sexual abuse trauma from my childhood. One episode stands out. When I
>was 4 years old, my mother took me and my 10 year old sister to an
>OB/GYN for the same surgery. My sister was constantly masturbating
>which concerned my mother. The Dr. cut the skin that surrounds the
>clitoris to reveal lumps of smegma that were caught there which were
>"bothering" my sister. They did the same thing to me to prevent the
>problem with me. We had to rub ourselves with vasoline for weeks until
>the cut skin healed. This was very traumatic and painful. I cannot
>find any reference in any GYN book to this kind of procedure. This
>happened in 1954. Was this a normal procedure or was it an abnormal one
>that my mother thought was necessary? Where can I find more information
>about this kind of treatment?

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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