srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) (04/07/85)
In article <563@homxb.UUCP> hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) writes: > >There is an operation (mutilation) which was practiced on males >It consists of slitting the penis on the bottom lengthwise >this practice occurred mainly in matriarchical societies to >limit the number of males available for families. Elizabeth Gould Davis described a similar practice in "The First Sex", but she said that it was to increase the pleasure of the matriarchs. She said a lot of interesting things in that book, but I don't know how reliable they are. Incidentally, I heard on the news a year or so ago that she had killed herself at the age of 64. -- Richard Mateosian {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA