UNDOING HARM: plastic surgeons tackle reconstruction for circumcised women [Sarasota Herald Tribune]

Karen Clemmer 6/4/191:34 PM

She called it her “deepest, darkest secret,” one she had never even shared with her husband.
When Saffiatu Sillah was growing up in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, a ritual circumcision left her with scar tissue that caused pain with pain during sex and agony during childbirth.
After her second child was born, Sillah, a pharmacist then living in Philadelphia, searched for medical help.

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