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Rabbit Hole: The History of Vaginoplasty and the Sensate Clitoris

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“There is no clitoris as yet.”

One sentence in the May 1972 edition of Sisters, a lesbian magazine, sent me down a medical-history rabbit hole. I thought it couldn’t be right. Then I started digging, for days.

Join Ruby Rae for a journey through the development of vaginoplasty, clitoral reconstruction and the preservation of sensation. From early attempts to create a vaginal canal to skin…