Tag Archives: Surgery/Plastic

[G-spot does not exist: G-spot amplification (i.e. G-spot Augmentation, G-Spotplasty) is a female genital mutilation type IV.] [Article in French]

Ann Chir Plast Esthet. 2014 Sep 22. pii: S0294-1260(14)00110-1. doi: 10.1016/j.anplas.2014.07.005. [Epub ahead of print] [G-spot does not exist: G-spot amplification (i.e. G-spot Augmentation, G-Spotplasty) is a female genital mutilation type IV.] [Article in French] Puppo V. There is no ABSTRACT available for this article. This article can be accessed in this LINK.

Cosmetic genitoplasty: It’s female genital mutilation and should be prosecuted.

BMJ. 2007 Jun 30;334(7608):1335. Cosmetic genitoplasty: It’s female genital mutilation and should be prosecuted. Berer M. Comment on BMJ. 2007 May 26;334(7603):1090-2. EXTRACT Liao and Creighton ask how healthcare providers in the United Kingdom should respond to requests for “genitoplasty,”1 or what two UK websites call “labial reduction” and “female genital reshaping.”2 3 This procedure, which entails “theContinue reading “Cosmetic genitoplasty: It’s female genital mutilation and should be prosecuted.”

Surgical techniques: defibulation of Type III female genital cutting

J Sex Med. 2007 Nov;4(6):1544-7. Surgical techniques: defibulation of Type III female genital cutting. Johnson C, Nour NM. Obstetrics & Gynecology, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Division General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA There is no abstract available for this article. This article can be accessed in this LINK.

Female circumcision: double standards.

Pract Midwife. 2012 Dec;15(11):27-8. Female circumcision: double standards. Adikibi A. Salford University. ABSTRACT Female circumcision is an emotive subject condemned by all and thought to be practised by less developed countries than the United Kingdom (UK) and United States of America (USA). However, this is now a growing business among western cosmetic surgeons as theseContinue reading “Female circumcision: double standards.”

[Female cosmetic genital surgery: Point-counterpoint]

Gynecol Obstet FertiL. July-Aug 2012 40(7–8); 445–448 Que penser de la génitoplastie cosmétique féminine aujourd’hui ? [Female cosmetic genital surgery: Point-counterpoint] [Article in French] Colson M.H. Abstract Cosmetic genitoplasty interventions, and especially reduction nymphoplasties, now seem to attract more and more patients, mainly among the younger who are more influenced by widely publicized pornographic than by anatomicContinue reading “[Female cosmetic genital surgery: Point-counterpoint]”

Views of women and men in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on three forms of female genital modification

Reprod Health Matters. May 2010, 18(35):84-93 Views of women and men in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on three forms of female genital modification Jirovsky E ABSTRACT This paper is about how female circumcision/female genital mutilation (FC/FGM) was viewed by women and men aged 18–89 in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, now that it has been against the law for almost 15 years. The findings come from 11Continue reading “Views of women and men in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on three forms of female genital modification”

Clinical characteristics of well women seeking labial reduction surgery: a prospective study

BJOG. 2011 Nov; 118(12): 1507-1510 Clinical characteristics of well women seeking labial reduction surgery: a prospective studyCrouch NS, Deans R, Michala L, Liao L-M, Creighton SM ABSTRACT Objective  To assess clinical characteristics and expectations in well women requesting elective labial reduction surgery. Design  Prospective study of women attending an outpatient gynaecology clinic. Setting  General gynaecologyContinue reading “Clinical characteristics of well women seeking labial reduction surgery: a prospective study”

Labial surgery for well women: a review of the literature

BJOG. 2010 Jan; 117(1): 20-25. Labial surgery for well women: a review of the literature Liao L-M, Michala L, Creighton SM ABSTRACT This review investigates the quality and content of published reports relating to labial surgery for well women. Electronic databases were searched for relevant articles between 1950 and April 2009. Forty articles were identified,Continue reading “Labial surgery for well women: a review of the literature”