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Severest remedy for female masturbation
Like men, women were also forced to undergo spinal and genital cauterisation and to wear
chastity belts in a vain
attempt to prevent masturbation. Krafft-Ebing refers to a girl who "at the age of ten was
giving up to the most
revolting vices." e.g. masturbation. He adds that "Even a white hot iron applied to the clitoris
had no effect in
overcoming this practice." After this sort of treatment the Moodie girdle of chastity, designed
for a similar
purpose, seems almost mild. In 1894, a surgeon was asked at St. John's Hospital, Ohio, to
bury a girl's clitoris
with silver wire sutures (clitoral masturbation not having been effectively stopped by means of
severe
cauterisation). The girl tore the sutures and resumed the habit. The entire organ was then
excised! Six weeks after
the operation the "patient" was reported as saying, "You know there is nothing there now, so I
could do
nothing." Holt's "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood" (New York), as late as
1936, was not averse to
circumcision in girls or cauterisation of the clitoris."