{"id":56863,"date":"2020-11-13T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=56863"},"modified":"2023-06-01T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:18:12","slug":"clitoridectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/clitoridectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clitoridectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical removal of the clitoris.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Removal of the clitoris. Clitoridectomy has been used for centuries in many countries, but is currently only used as part of ritual female circumcision in some African countries and in parts of Asia. 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Removal of the clitoris. Clitoridectomy has been used for centuries in many countries, but is currently only used as part of ritual female circumcision in some African countries and in parts of Asia. Although clitoridectomy was used in some Western countries as a brutal and ineffective remedy for masturbation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clitoridectomy - Definition of Clitoridectomy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Surgical removal of the clitoris.Removal of the clitoris. 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