In their Letter to the Editor, Drs Davison and LaBove pose an interesting question regarding the optimal scar placement for monsplasty and advocate that vertical pull on the mons elongates the pubic area by raising the hairline. While in many massive weight loss patients, the mons region can have both vertical and horizontal excess, the vertical component is easy to manage, as long as the scar ...

At the annual NASPAG meeting in San Diego, there was much discussion about the appropriate timing for treating young girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Traditionally a reduction clitoroplasty and cutback vulvoplasty are often performed in the neonatal period. When surgery is performed in the neonatal period, a second surgery is often required at the time of puberty to improve vaginal ca...

subjected to genital mutilation, and their ranks are swelled by a further 3 million girls each year. Female genital mutilation (FGM) (the term in common usage internationally) is practised in 29 African countries and in Yemen, Oman and Indonesia; it has been imported to the industrialised countries by certain groups of immigrants from these countries. All forms of FGM are irreversible and cause...

Sexual behaviour of 75 normal married females was studied. Most of them had a healthy attitude to sex. Frequency of sexual activity decreases with age and duration of marriage. Median frequency for 21-30years age was 2/week, for 31- 40years was 1.4/week and for 41-50 years was 0.5/week. Frequency of coitus did not correlate with socio-economic status. Nearly 52% women had more than 50% satisfac...

Pressing and rubbing the clitoris and various other parts of your body can lead to many pleasurable sensations: pelvic fullness, bodily tension, tingly sensations, earth-shattering shakes, and more. An orgasm [2] is the point at which all the tension is suddenly released in a series of involuntary and pleasurable muscular contractions. For women, these contractions can be felt in a variety of p...

We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of clitoral ultrasonography as a measure of female sexual arousal by assessing the following: (a) its ability to discriminate between sexual and other forms of arousal; and (b) its correlation with subjective ratings of arousal. Results from 63 healthy premenopausal women indicate that ultrasonography was not successful in differentiating sex...