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Autoerotism, homoerotism, and foreplay in African women who practice labia minora elongation: a review

International Journal of Sexual Health.2014, 26(4): 314-328. Autoerotism, homoerotism, and foreplay in African women who practice labia minora elongation: a review Martínez Pérez G, Bagnol B, Tomás Aznar C ABSTRACT Labia minora elongation is a female genital modification that some women in certain linguistic groups from Africa engage in. One of the purposes is to enhance sexual pleasureContinue reading “Autoerotism, homoerotism, and foreplay in African women who practice labia minora elongation: a review”

Rethinking the history of female circumcision and clitoridectomy: American medicine and female sexuality in the late nineteenth century.

J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2008 Jul;63(3):323-47. Epub 2007 Dec 9. Rethinking the history of female circumcision and clitoridectomy: American medicine and female sexuality in the late nineteenth century. Rodriguez SW. 001 Wendover Avenue, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502, USA. sarahbeth3001@yahoo.com ABSTRACT During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was one kind of female orgasmContinue reading “Rethinking the history of female circumcision and clitoridectomy: American medicine and female sexuality in the late nineteenth century.”

The historical response to female sexuality.l

Maturitas. 2009 Jun 20;63(2):107-11. The historical response to female sexuality. Studd J, Schwenkhagen A. London PMS & Menopause Clinic, 46 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8SD, UK. harley@studd.co.uk ABSTRACT In the past, medical attitudes to female sexuality were grotesque, reflecting the anxiety and hypocrisy of the times. In the medieval world, the population feared hunger, theContinue reading “The historical response to female sexuality.l”

The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context.

Int J Psychoanal. 2009 Jun;90(3):551-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00134.x. The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context. Bonomi C. mail@carlobonomi.it ABSTRACT In this paper the author outlines and discusses the origins and the decline of castration and circumcision as a cure for the nervous and psychic disturbances in women andContinue reading “The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context.”