Ein Text, der vor Verständnis für den berüchtigten Arzt Edwin Pratt, der im 19. Jahrhundert die Vorhautamputation bei Mädchen und Jungen propagierte nur so trieft.
Pratt's "orificial philosophy" held that most health problems were due to malformations of the orifices—all orifices of the body, including the nose and mouth, but usually specifically those located below the waist. The numbers of those subjected to orificial surgery during its brief heyday are estimated in the tens of thousands
Pratt's ideas do not appear to have ever had any evidentiary backing. The remarkable success of his ideas, which drew hundreds of surgeons to the cause, has been attributed to his "salesmanship skills"...
Pratt frequently prescribed circumcision and other adjustments of the genitals as a preventative for masturbation and other "unnatural" behaviors.....
He advocated removal of the hood of the clitoris as a cure for female masturbation, and hysterectomies as a cure for female insanity.
Ach ja, Pratt war auch Homöopath, und Hulverscheidt scheint stark homöopathisch angehaucht zu sein. Sie bastelt sogar eine Brücke zwischen Genitalverstümmelung und Homöopathie.
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Stopping nerve waste and active circulation of the blood are goals to achieve. And the
sexual organs in both sexes do have an essential connection to the sympathetic nervous
system (Pratt, Orificial Surgery 18). So the waste of sexual power causes a waste of
sympathetic nervous power in both sexes.
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Surgical alterations of the vulva, especially the clitoris, are currently addressed either
as female genital mutilation or as a consented aesthetic surgery. But the bloody alterations of
the vulva performed by orificial surgeons cannot so easily be categorized in this dichotomous
thinking.
Quacksalberei, verstümmelnde, auch noch relativieren!