Female gential mutilation continues despite WHO and other efforts to
stop it:

http://www.the-clitoris.com/n_html/n_risk.htm

Male genital mutilation (circumcision) continues despite grass-roots
efforts to stop it.

Sorry, no web reference on this....

My own experience is composite; for many years (ever since puberty) I
have been aware of a nexus of nervous tissue in my circumcised penis. A
small knot. Early in my sexual experience I bragged that it was as
sensitive as the clitoris of the woman I was with. It has always been
very sensitive.

Now, I find that with the administration of Lexapro, an SSRI, for
symptoms of obsession and compulsion (I asked specifically for an SSRI,
requesting fluvoxamine), this tissue is no longer senstive and I wonder
if "the guardians of normality" (my psychiatrist and psychologist) are
performing a chemical clitoridectomy.

It's very frustrating. The Lexapro gives me a real boost, making me
more social, but the sexual side effects are just awful. Dysorgasmia,
anorgasmia, delayed ejaculation, and ejaculatory impotence. My primary
partner suffers as well from my side effects.

If I complain to my treatment team that they are conspiring to rob me
of what pleasure I have left, in the presence of pre-existing
anhedonia, they will gently remind me that I have paranoid symptoms and
that they are here to help, but my paranoid symptoms are under control
with not one but two antipsychotics, and I think I genuinely detect the
presence of an agenda here.

What do you think?

Would you like to hear more?

Yours,

Doug Goncz
Replikon Research
Falls Church, VA 22044-0394