Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!sfmag!eagle!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.women,net.religion,net.books Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of) Message-ID: <169@osiris.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 09:14:41 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.169 Posted: Fri Mar 8 09:14:41 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 04:14:19 EST References: <249@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <3299@umcp-cs.UUCP> <5077@utzoo.UUCP> <2389@nsc.UUCP> <700@ccice5.UUCP> <156@osiris.UUCP> <205@rtech.ARPA> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.women:4597 net.religion:5927 net.books:1557 > Does anyone know what reasons (excuses) such societies state for their > practice of clitorectomy? I doubt that they actually claim that they do > it in order to reduce the girl's future pleasure. In the U.S., large > numbers of unnecessary hysterectomies have been performed under the name > of "health". I'm always interested in how people justify their behavior. > -- > Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) > aka Swazoo Koolak I am told that there was an article in "Ms." last year sometime, by a Eqyptian doctor who herself suffered a clitorectomy as a girl. This and the responding letters which confirm the practice are supposedly very interesting. If anyone can find these and summarize for the net, it would be greatly appreciated. jcpatilla -- jcpatilla "'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."