Blader - Interview
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[F]Interview Submission Date: 2002-07-18 By: Blader [Clitorectomy] [Female Circumsicion] [Minor] [Straight]
An Interview With a Doctor Who Performs Female Circumcision
Q: How did you start circumcising girls?
I started my surgical career by performing male circumcisions, and wondered for years why girls get by uncut. One day a friend of mine brought me his 9 year old daughter who kept playing with herself, like something was bothering her. I examined her and it turned out her clitoral secretions were causing an itch. I cleansed it, but the condition repeated in a couple of weeks. Her parents were quite concerned about the problem, they told me her teacher at school also complained. They asked me if there was a permanent solution. I suggested removing the clitoral hood, and they said OK. We did it the next day, and her problems went away completely afterwards.
Apparently my friend and his wife told others about the solution to their daughter's problem, and a month later a woman came with her 7 year old daughter who had taken to the habit of masturbation since she was a baby. She had heard about my previous operation, and asked me if I could remove her daughter's clitoris. I was at first surprised by this request, and told her that I had never done this before, and that it could be dangerous. Then as I was giving her excuses, I noticed that the girl was obviously rubbing her crotch against the couch. Her mother saw it too and started crying, and I finally said yes. I gave them an appointment for the next week. Until then I did some research on the procedure, which apparently was once quite popular in medical circles. I found some books by Dr. Baker Brown which helped a lot and I was reassured that this operation was not only safe, but also beneficial, a good solution to masturbation. The next week they arrived in the morning, and everything went all right, and the results were perfect for everyone. After that my fame spread fast among parents. That's how it all started.
Q: What does the operation involve?
It varies according to the parents' wishes. Sometimes it is just skinning off the hood, and sometimes they want everything off, including the lips, but mostly it is the clitoris. And mostly, all of it, off at the base. Very rarely do they want half, or only the tip off. And I don't like doing labia. Just a trim maybe, if they are unusual.
Q: For what reasons do parents want to have their daughters circumcised?
Masturbation is the most common reason. These girls also tend to get involved in sexual play with their friends. And circumcision is a good solution, I am really proud of the results. It is not just physical prevention, it is also psychological. It makes her know that she is punished exactly where she was misbehaving. And also she feels that she is now different, older, not the girl she used to be. Indeed this is what rites of passage are all about.
There have also been families who wanted this as a punishment for other reasons, like not doing well at school, or being noisy and problematic in general. I strongly suspect that such misbehavior in young girls is, more often than not, connected to sexual urges, because circumcision has invariably solved the problems in those cases too, almost magically, I dare say.
Also there is a certain medical condition where the clitoris swells up and becomes very painful to the lightest touch. Let alone wearing panties, the girl can walk only by spreading her legs. This occurs more frequently than you might think, and to girls of ages from 7 to 25. There is no known reason, and no cure but to have the clitoris excised. Those girls are the most grateful patients I have ever had.
Q: How often do you perform female circumcisions?
Well, I have been in this for the past six years, and there is quite a market, but still there are almost no other doctors who perform the operation, which makes me quite popular. This time of year, about two cases arrive in a week on the average, but it goes up to almost every day in summer. Most families prefer to have it done in summer so that the girl will not miss her classes.
Q: How many girls have you circumcised in your career?
I would estimate that after six years, it should be close to a thousand. Come to think of it, that would be a bucketful of little clitorises.
Q: How old are the girls you circumcise?
I have always been against circumcising babies, boy and girl alike. If circumcision is to serve its purpose, the child should be old enough to be aware of what is being done. I refuse to circumcise girls younger than 7, and that is also about the youngest age for medically urgent cases. The oldest girl I circumcised for masturbation was 16. The ideal age in my opinion should be about 12.
Q: Do you advocate the routine circumcision of girls?
I used to be reluctant about that. Now that I have quite an experience with all this - and I do try to keep in touch with the families afterwards - I can gather that virtually all girls start to masturbate, at a very young age. This makes them consciously or subconsciously think about sex and sexual pleasure, which is psychologically very harmful at those ages. They misbehave, cannot concentrate, and in turn become disobedient at home and school. They become a problem child. All girl parents will know what I am talking about here. What most of them do not know is, these problems all dissolve away in a matter of days after the girl is relieved of her clitoris. Realizing this truth the way I do, it is impossible not to say yes to having girls routinely circumcised.
Q: Do you require the personal consent of the girls you circumcise?
No. Mostly they are too young to decide for themselves, and in any case, their parents should know best. In the cases where the girl strongly resisted, I have been able to talk most of them into going through. I guess I'm famous for being smooth with my patients. Anyway, the remaining few had to be forced onto the table.
Q: How do you perform a typical clitoridectomy? Can you describe the procedure in detail?
Sure. The girl arrives with her parents, and is taken by my assistant nurse to the preparation room. The parents stay in the waiting room and fill out the parental consent forms. My assistant undresses the girl, makes her go to the bathroom, then shaves her pubic hair, if any, with an electric razor. She puts a green surgical gown on her, and leads her to the operating room. Meanwhile I'm ready with my gloves on and tools ready.
The circumcision chair is much like a gyno chair, with spreading leg rests and all, but smaller in size, better suited to young girls. The back is quite slanted, close to a lying position. There are leather straps over the thighs and the ankles. Another wide strap over the abdomen makes sure the hips do not move, and a pair of wrist straps keep the hands together over the head.
My assistant helps the girl onto the chair and tightens the straps. The gown is now pulled up above the waist strap, revealing her completely below the waist. I sit on a low stool in front of her with my tools in a tray on a small table. I wipe the whole area with an antiseptic solution and begin.
She is invariably quite tense, waiting for something painful to happen. The clitoris is mostly hidden deep at this time. First I do something completely unexpected, a technique I developed as a result of my experiences. This is a surprise for everyone, perhaps even you. I smear some mint oil over her anus and slide in a sanitary tampon. This is exactly what it is intended for, a surprise. For a moment she briefly tenses up even more, but then relaxes. The brain is madly busy with this fresh sensation down there, further below than where expected. The clitoral muscles unconsciously relax, and the clitoris visibly comes out. Without waiting for her to regain control, I pick up my tools and proceed. With the forceps in my left hand, I tightly grab the clitoris with its hood, and pull it out and upward. Then I carefully but quickly position the small scissors in my right hand over its base, and make a single determined cut from above, separating the whole structure. Blood gushes out at the cut root, and I firmly press on it a dab of cotton with alcohol, which hurts a little more, but stops the bleeding soon.
At the moment of the excision, there used to be some unexpected contractions of the vagina, which made the girl shake her hips dangerously despite the straps, and increased bleeding. My invention of the anal insertion visibly alleviated this effect, seeming to draw the contractions toward the anus and absorb them. Also, separating everything in a steady single snip is vital. The girl should not be allowed time to tense up in the middle being cut.
Well, there it is, a relief for everyone. Since the anaesthethic increasingly sinks in, the girl's pain, however mild, is soon over completely. In a few minutes the bleeding stops too, and she has calmed down. My assistant, talking to her all the way through, now mostly asks her questions, making her talk. When she is breathing normally and answering calmly, I carefully pull the tampon out of her anus - by which she is calm enough to be embarrassed now - and my assistant unstraps her and help her off, she gets off the table on her feet.
Q: Do you let the girls see the removed flesh afterwards? If you do, how do they react?
Yes, they see it as soon as they get off the chair, because their eyes are invariably looking for it. They see a bloody sliver of flesh on a piece of cotton next to the scissors, and they know that is it, a piece of them. The very tender, very fun piece of them. Their reactions vary. Some just stare at it, some start crying, some smile, and some are just curious, wanting to look closer. Come to think of it, they could never look at it from so close before.
Q: What do you tell the girl beforehand about the operation?
I try to tell as much as possible without scaring her. If the girl is already quite stressed by the whole idea of being cut, I make it sound like a very minor thing, like cutting fingernails or hair. I tell her that it will not hurt more than a pinch. The straps I know are scary for most, but I reassure them that it is for their safety not to move. I do not blindfold them because that makes things worse. She will get more scared in the dark, she will tighten up more, and bleed more. Still my assistant makes sure she is not looking down there as I cut.
Q: What happens to the severed piece?
I have always thought that the excised clitoris should be preserved and kept by the family, as the ultimate souvenir of this very special event, literally a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the girl. I used to hand it to them on a piece of cotton. Then I reasoned that it would soon dry and be thrown away, so now I put it in a small jar of formaldehyde. I know some families who chose to display the piece in the living room for friends and relatives. I keep a couple of jarred ones for myself, since the parents were not interested.
Q: Do you use anaesthesia?
Yes, I use local anaesthesia. I make three injections, one at the base of the clitoris, and one on each side. But there are a few minutes after injections before the anaesthetic fully takes effect, and I don't wait all through it, so there is some pain. Not so much to make her scream, but there should always be some pain. She should know she is being cut down there. Anyway in a few minutes when the anaesthesia sets in, the area goes completely numb, and she often goes off the table calm on her feet.
Q: Do you allow them to see what is being done? Do you blindfold or gag them?
No, except a handful of cases where the girl was old enough and specifically wanted to see it done, I do not allow them to look down. Even with those brave and curious girls, it resulted in increased tension, pain and bleeding. My assistant stands next to the chair and makes them look at her, or up at the ceiling. She keeps talking to them soothingly, saying things like "Look at me... Don't close your eyes now... Breate deeply, in... out... Don't look down there, there's nothing to see." And it works.
I tried blindfolding in my early experiences, and it really makes them panic and tense up.
I never gag them either, for the same purpose. It is even worse, because it makes breathing harder. With the occasional screaming cases, up till now we have been able to convince the girl that it will hurt only if she cries. Anyway, this is all until I make the cut, and then they can cry out all they want, it would neither affect my concentration, nor increase the bleeding after that point.
Q: What does the girl feel during the operation, and how does she react?
You'd better ask one of them, I can only speak on my observations here.
The initial cleansing sponge wipe tickles the girl, makes her uneasy. Then she feels the burning stings of the anaesthethic injections. That's a bit of a shock, the first bits of pain. She is suddenly frightened, knowing something nasty will really happen now. She tenses up, and that is not good. Then I smear the anal oil, and slowly push in the tampon, which interrupts her tension and distracts her attention. Her brain is now madly busy with this fresh sensation down under and inside, not consciously reasoning anymore. Suddenly she feels a strong tug at something deeply attached to her, and before she can panick, something happens. It takes a aplit second to realize what. Her eyes suddenly open wide in shock and disbelief. Then an almost visible wave of pain surges from her - actually missing - clitoris up her spine, and she cries. Her vaginal muscles go into a state of uncontrollable contractions, but the existence of an external object in her rectum prevents her from tightening up her hips completely.
This all takes a moment, and then the contractions stop and the brain takes control over the body again. The pain is still there but is not as sharp, and she feels a trickle of blood down towards her anus. The alcohol dab burns a little at first and then it slowly goes numb completely down there, partly due to the anaesthesia, and partly because the brain is accustomed to the pain now. Despite the subconscious grieving for a deep loss, she quickly reminds herself that it is all over.In a few minutes she calms down completely, and the pain is all forgotten. Something else which she has probably forgotten is the fresh thing slid up her anus, and when it is time to remove it, she blushes with embarrassment. Shortly after, she's on her feet. Walking feels a little weird because of the numbing, but she can go home now.
Q: How long does it take to heal? And how much care is needed?
The pain comes back in a few hours at home as the anaesthesia wears off, and I recommend pressing an ice cube on the wound. I schedule the operation usually early in the morning so she will not need an ice cube at night, and will sleep well. A steroid cream is applied over the wound twice a day for a week, along with oral antibiotics, to prevent infection. Parents can usually manage this themselves, and I call them in only after two weeks, and that just to see if everything went all right.
Walking hurts for a week of days, but after that the girl can go to school with a piece of cotton fitted over the empty spot. Of course she should not attend gym classes before the wound completely heals, and that takes about a month.
Q: How much sexual sensitivity is left in the clitoral area after circumcision?
Not as much as before, of course, that is the whole purpose. But if you are asking whether circumcision ends all prospective orgasmic sexual activity, the answer is no. The circumcision spot is still partly sensitive, though not enough to allow deliberate masturbation as before. It will need to be patiently stimulated, probably by a partner, because a personal labor at that will not allow the relaxation necessary for orgasm. You see how proper the operation proves to be.
Vaginal and anal orgasms are again still physically possible later in life. The brain of the girl who has masturbated clitorally until then will have to learn to achieve orgasm by other means. The neural pathways will take a few years to adapt before a non-clitoral orgasm, but that too perfectly serves the intended purpose.
Q: Do you have any circumcision experiences that were especially interesting for you?
Yes. Two girls, 13 and 14 years old, gave out unmistakeable cries of pleasure as I cut their clitorises off. I wonder if something went wrong with the anaesthetic, but I never really figured out why.
Another girl who claimed to be 18 years old - but was probably under 16 despite her probably fake ID - came by herself. She seemed very disturbed for some reason, and asked to be liberated from her clitoris at once. She did not have an obvious medical condition, but she was so insistent, I took her inside and did it. She was very relieved, thanked me greatly and left smiling with her clitoris in her hand. I never saw her again.
One family asked me to come to their house and do it there. They had guests too. They watched it smiling, and applauded as I cut. They congratulated the girl, who was apparently happy with the attention she received, despite the sensitive piece of flesh she sacrificed. The clitoris was then passed around. It was like a birthday party.
Another family insisted on being in the operating room, and they videotaped the circumcision.
Q: How do you plan to improve yourself in this direction?
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a community for this, so there are no books being published, no conferences held. The golden era of female circumcision research is long gone, and I am completely by myself.
But that does not discourage me, and I try to document my observations and findings from my experiences. Taking care not to harm the girl, I make little experiments, like cutting a little bit differently this time, or pulling a little that way next time. I will certainly publish my work, but I am waiting for a time when the public rediscovers the benefits of female circumcision.
Also, I wanted to be an inventor when I was young, and I am working of various designs of different apparatus to perform the operation, like clamps, shears, guillotines and automatically circumcising saddles. But they are all on paper now, I haven't had time to have any of them actually built. That's another thing I hope to have time for in the future.
Q: Your assistant is a young woman. What does she think about circumcising girls?
We never really talked about it except professionally, but she seems to approve of the operation. I guess in time she has come to realize the excellent results, as I have.