Word: clitorises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the land to which Lydia Oluloro has been ordered to return, little girls are mutilated. It doesn't matter whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate. It can happen in their infancy or in their teens. The age varies among ethnic groups, as does the degree of...
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered what may be the essential signal that triggers erection: a tiny secretion of nitric oxide by penile nerves. An ointment that promotes the production of nitric oxide might alleviate impotence; one that inhibits production could relieve priapism, prolonged erections unrelated to desire. Also...
Yet even this snippet of DNA is not enough to ensure a masculine result. An elevated level of the hormone testosterone is also required during the pregnancy. Where does it come from? The fetus' own undescended testes. In those rare cases in which the tiny body does not respond to...
The duo of Kevin Kegan and David Land brought a female volunteer on stage. One clitoris joke later, the two performers ran into the wings, leaving the woman to return to her seat, visibly upset.
Midwives, village healers and elderly female relatives perform the ritual without anesthesia, using unsterilized razor blades. Parents look upon it favorably, on the grounds that removing the clitoris purifies their daughters and deadens their interest in sexual pleasure. Ironically, the frigidity or infertility caused by the mutilation leads many husbands...