Female Genital Cutting

Female Sexual Pain Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 235-243

  Johnson, Crista ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clitoral neuroma formation underreported complication of FGC resulting in chronic vulvar pain; Female genital cutting (FGC); Mixed findings with regards to sexual pain associated with FGC; Neurobiological outcomes; Origins are cultural rather than religious practiced by Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Psychosexual outcomes; Sequelae of FGC; Sexuality understood within socio cultural context and pain sensory function carefully assessed; Surgical management; World Health Organization (WHO) and various types of FGC

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049101838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308136.ch36     Document Type: Chapter

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