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Can you still have an orgasm if you have?a?female circumcision?

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Dr. Michael Sinclair answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Maybe: If the female circumcision was done to treat a hooded clitoris, then yes, and it should be even easier. If it was the barbaric 4th degree circumcision that is common in african and muslim countries, then it will be much harder. That awful procedure was designed to eliminate the woman's pleasure on the theory that they would have no reason to have sex with anybody else but their husband.

Answered 9/18/2013

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Possibly - but for : Many females the cost is severe chronic pain or even death. Female genital mutilation can lead to hemorrhage, urinary retention, urinary tract infections, keloid scars, strictures, fistula, incontinence, infertility, painful intercourse, painful periods, neuroma, recurrent infections, septicemia, transmission of hepatitis, tetanus, HIV & difficulty with childbirth. Many girls & women develop >.

Answered 6/10/2014

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