A couple of days ago, Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder jointly posted a brief article (Bad Vibrations) on the Bioethics Forum of the Hastings Center’s website.
The piece picked up on an earlier article, Nerve Sparing Ventral Clitoroplasty: Analysis of Clitoral Sensitivity and Viability – PDF here – published in 2007 by Jennifer Yang (a pediatric urologist), Diane Felsen (a pharmacologist) and Dix P. Poppas, M.D in The Journal of Urology.
Dreger and Feder’s piece focuses attention on Dr Poppas, a pediatric urologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University whose “special interest in genital reconstruction [and] surgical aspects of disorders of sexual development” has apparently led him to carry out a program of research on 51 girls aged between 4 months and 24 years old (mean age ± SD 4.6 ± 6.8 years) in which he performed nerve sparing ventral clitoroplasty, which included “followup testing of clitoral viability and sensation after clitoroplasty“.
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I'm planning to blog about this doctor, and the gross sexual abuse and disfiguring surgery he's specialising in. I personally think he should have his license revoked.
ReplyDeleteEverything is messed up about him and his work. There's arguments around "too large a clitoris" leading to lesbianism! (As if that's a problem, for one thing; and as if that's true, for another.)
And the used vibrators on the girls to check if the nerves are working post-surgery. It all sounds like sexual abuse/violence to me.