Clitoridectomy is the surgical removal of the clitoris. It is a form of female genital mutilation. A typical modern surgery operation For other meanings of the word, see Surgery (disambiguation) Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. ... A womans clitoris extends from the visible portion to a point below the pubic bone. ... Female circumcision (including excision) refers to a number of procedures performed on the female genitalia and which are generally of a cultural, rather than medical nature. ...
Clitoridectomies are either common or universal in nearly 20 African nations, many Middle Eastern nations, and in parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the India-Pakistan Subcontinent.
Clitoridectomies were also occasionally recommended to "cure" female masturbators and women with "loose" moral virtues in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States.
Pharaonic clitoridectomy entails removal of the clitoris along with the labia minora and the inner layers of the labia majora.
That the performance of clitoridectomy on a woman without her knowledge and consent, as detailed by Dr. West, is an offence against Medical ethics, needs not to be said.
We may be pardoned for adding that not one of the supposititious cases alleged by Dr. Routh at the late meeting of the Obstetrical Society has the least bearing on or analogy with the performance of clitoridectomy without the knowledge of the patient or her friends.
J.B. Fleming, "Clitoridectomy: The disastrous downfall of Isaac Baker Brown FRCS (1867)," Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, Vol.
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