Cornell doctor scars children in the name of science

[threeplusfire]

http://jezebel.com/5565895/cornell-surgeon-used-vibrator-to-stimulate-6+year+olds

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201006/can-you-hear-us-now

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4730&blogid=140

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/06/16/female-genital-mutilation-at-cornell-university

Finally, do we really think this is like what happened in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Yup. A population gets marked as being not normal sexually, and then ends up as research fodder with sub-standard ethics oversight, without anyone even telling them they're research fodder. The docs publish years of follow-up studies in medical journals, and their colleagues, including the medical journal editors, don't stop and say, "Wait, what now? What are you doing?" And the only way these girls are going to get protected is if the press finally gets involved. - from Psychology Today


Even worse than just abusing your children yourself is deliberately allowing someone else to do so. I speak from my own personal experience, as well as the experience of working at a hotline for cases of abuse.

Pretending girls will grow up psychologically damaged by big labia or clitorises is so offensive I don't even know where to begin with that one. Letting someone mutilate your child and subject them to what amounts to insane follow up exams because you worried they were physically unsightly or might turn out gay is just about the worst thing I've heard. (And let me tell you, I have heard some horrifying, awful stories.)

I can't even begin to describe how sick to my stomach this news makes me feel.

One Inch by rm

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Entirely the expected outcome of the increasing obsession with labiaplasty, "revirginization" and other "genital sculpting" techniques designed to give grown women the genitalia of a small child. Oh, but I forgot, these sorts of things only ever go on in "backwards" Muslim countries and not the liberated secular West.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The first time I heard about labiaplasty, I thought it was some elaborate trolling. I could not believe that shit was for real.

None of this shit makes it any easier to go to a doctor.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Not being a cisgendered, preferably white male means your body belongs to everyone else but you, cradle to grave.