HTHSCI 1H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Female Genital Mutilation, Female Ejaculation, Genitoplasty
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Chapter #3: female and male anatomy and physiology. For chapter #3 content please review the handout online and concepts from the text in regards to anatomy as they not explicitly be discussed in class (but the content is testable!) The ovaries no longer ripen eggs or produce sex hormones hyperlink. In 2002 controversy over hrt: incidence of breast cancer in women taking hrt. Now recommended only for short-term use in women with severe symptoms. Designer vaginas elective genitoplasty shortening or changing shape of outer lipa or labia, may also include reduction in hood of skin covering clitoris or shortening of vagina lack of data negligible assessment about. Prolonged stimulation is theorized to cause particularly intense orgasms and female ejaculation. Prevalence over 130 million women worldwide have been affected by some of fgc with over 2 million procedures performed every year (amnesty international) Clitoridectomy - surgical removal of the clitoris, not all fgc is removal of clitoris, other parts as well.