[lbo-talk] "Normalizing" Genital Appearance (Re: circumcision)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > And there's no need for westrners to feel superior. We slice ourselves
>>  up all the time, and we don't even have the excuse that we're five years
>>  old and someone is doing it to us. Most of plastic surgery is equally
>>  barbaric, and as I mentioned yesterday five female infants a day get
>>  their clitorises cut off in the U.S. every day because some adult
>>  decides they are too big.
>>  > So, if you want to avoid cultural superiority, there's plenty to fight
>>  on our own turf.
>>  > Joanna
>
>Can you provide some data to support this? I used to work in a 
>hospital and my recollection was that this was very rare. Admittedly 
>I didn't work in maternity but I knew doctors and others who did and 
>this just sounds wrong to me. Maybe things have changed that much in 
>13 years?
>
>John Thornton

Total number of people receiving surgery to "normalize" genital 
appearance: one or two in 1,000 births

Source: Intersex Society of North America, "Frequency: How Common Are 
Intersex Conditions?" <http://www.isna.org/node/91>
-- 
Yoshie

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