More on medical violence against women
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cheshire_bitten here, Graham Reeves is not the only doctor who was mutilating women (this is rather ancient as "news" goes, from 1988, but still worth knowing about) (POSS TRIG):
Dr. Burt, once a well-regarded physician considered merely eccentric, began the special surgery in 1966. Explaining his philosophy in his 1975 book, ''Surgery of Love,'' Dr. Burt wrote: ''Women are structurally inadequate for intercourse. This is a pathological condition amenable to surgery.'' In franker terms, he also said that his surgery would turn women into ''horny little mice'' and asserted that ''the difference between rape and rapture is salesmanship.''
In the book, Dr. Burt admitted to performing reconstructive surgery on ''many hundreds'' of women without their consent, usually after the birth of a child. ''The patient,'' he wrote, ''had not been informed that anything more had been done to her than delivery and episiotomy and repair, or ''Yes, you had stitches with your delivery.' ''
The surgery often included removing the hood of a patient's clitoris, repositioning the vagina, moving the urethra, and altering the walls between the rectum and vagina. It was intended, the doctor wrote, to redesign the vagina to increase sexual responsiveness.
Instead, the surgery caused sexual dysfunction, extensive scarring, chronic infections of the kidney, bladder and vagina and the need for corrective surgery in many patients, according to the Ohio medical board. Although some of the patients have expressed satisfaction with their surgery, at least one patient suffered phlebitis, blood clots and a heart attack, the board said, and several have permanent disabilities.
cheshire_bitten here, Graham Reeves is not the only doctor who was mutilating women (this is rather ancient as "news" goes, from 1988, but still worth knowing about) (POSS TRIG):
Dr. Burt, once a well-regarded physician considered merely eccentric, began the special surgery in 1966. Explaining his philosophy in his 1975 book, ''Surgery of Love,'' Dr. Burt wrote: ''Women are structurally inadequate for intercourse. This is a pathological condition amenable to surgery.'' In franker terms, he also said that his surgery would turn women into ''horny little mice'' and asserted that ''the difference between rape and rapture is salesmanship.''
In the book, Dr. Burt admitted to performing reconstructive surgery on ''many hundreds'' of women without their consent, usually after the birth of a child. ''The patient,'' he wrote, ''had not been informed that anything more had been done to her than delivery and episiotomy and repair, or ''Yes, you had stitches with your delivery.' ''
The surgery often included removing the hood of a patient's clitoris, repositioning the vagina, moving the urethra, and altering the walls between the rectum and vagina. It was intended, the doctor wrote, to redesign the vagina to increase sexual responsiveness.
Instead, the surgery caused sexual dysfunction, extensive scarring, chronic infections of the kidney, bladder and vagina and the need for corrective surgery in many patients, according to the Ohio medical board. Although some of the patients have expressed satisfaction with their surgery, at least one patient suffered phlebitis, blood clots and a heart attack, the board said, and several have permanent disabilities.