The other day a young woman wrote to us on the Sexual Health site about her discovery that she had been "circumcised" as an infant. By this we mean that her female genitalia was surgically cut so that the clitoris is altered or removed. Nobody had told her that this had been done. So for years she wondered why she experienced pain. She had asked her mother about this and was told that this was a way to control her sexual desire when she would become a woman and to make her more...
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