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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.

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: This Is Funny? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

When I was a girl of ten, I was told to be brave and not to cry, that I'd be a big girl after the ordeal. But when I saw the half-blind old woman with her razor, I bolted. My mother and aunts held me down and spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Ritual Of Danger | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

There are three degrees of the procedure: sunna (traditional), which involves cutting off the tip of the clitoris; excision, the removal of the clitoris and the labia minora; and infibulation, the removal of the clitoris, the labia minora and labia majora. With infibulation, the pubic area is stitched up after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Ritual Of Danger | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Ritual Of Danger | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Wanda: I liked you better as a chauvinist pig, husband of mine. Your argument has only one minor flaw, Ralph: it's totally wrong. There is no clitoral party line, though easily threatened males may think so. The clitoris ! is the normal center of women's sexuality, and it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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