DR. SHELDON G. LEIBOw: Case 1. The first patient is an infant girl who was first seen here on October 6, 1958 at the age of 2 months by Dr. Gardner. She was referred for evalua tion because of an enlarged clitoris present since birth. The child was born on August 5, 1958, the ninth pregnancy of a 39-year-old mother. Her mother had a history of three spontaneous abortions, two of which had prece...

DR. SHELDON G. LEIBOw: Case 1. The first patient is an infant girl who was first seen here on October 6, 1958 at the age of 2 months by Dr. Gardner. She was referred for evalua tion because of an enlarged clitoris present since birth. The child was born on August 5, 1958, the ninth pregnancy of a 39-year-old mother. Her mother had a history of three spontaneous abortions, two of which had prece...

Good news for all the women who masturbate out there (and the people who love pleasing them) ? the idea that frequent and regular masturbation causes desensitization or numbness of the clitoris, preventing women from orgasming during intercourse, is false. In fact, masturbation, with or without the aid of a sex toy, helps women increase their clitoral sensations, improving the quality of their ...

DISCLOSURES: NONE ABSTRACT Background: The occurrence of labial fusion in an adult following episiotomy is rarely reported. Even though it is one of the simplest procedures performed in obstetric practice, an episiotomy may be complicated by labial fusion which results in difficulty in sexual intercourse and infertility. Case Report: She was a 23-year old Primipara who presented to the Gynaecol...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitals for non-therapeutic reasons. They can have negative psychosexual and health consequences that need specific care. In this paper, we review some key knowledge gaps in the clinical care of women with FGM, focusing on obstetric outcomes, surgical interventions (defibulation an...

INTRODUCTION A normal sexual response in the female depends on the integrity of afferent sensory input from the genital region. So far genital sensation has been investigated only during a non-excitatory state, and the sensory physiological changes, which occur during the sexual cycle in this region, are still obscured. AIM To investigate the sensory status of the female genital region during...

Understanding the evolutionary forces that influence sexual dimorphism is a fundamental goal in biology. Here, we focus on one particularly extreme example of sexual dimorphism. Many mammal species possess a bone in their penis called a baculum. The female equivalent of this bone is called the baubellum and occurs in the clitoris, which is developmentally homologous to the male penis. To unders...

In the abnormal cases he found?(a) Meissner's corpuscles, somewhat enlarged; (b) globular terminal bulbs, with increased cellular elements; (e) a peculiar end-organ in the papillae resembling, according to him, a nerve-ending found by Ihlder2 in the tongues of certain birds. Ballantyne's3 examination of normal and hypertrophied nymphse gave the same results, with the exception that he did not f...

Historically, in female pseudohermaphrodites a staged procedure with early clitoral reduction and delayed vaginoplasty was often the treatment of choice. In recent years several authors have described 1-stage genitoplasty that is performed in the first year of life. The 1stage procedure for clitoroplasty and vaginal exteriorization is preferable for an optimal functional and cosmetic result. Be...