The Rape of Innocence
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Title | The Rape of Innocence |
Subtitle | Female Fenital Mutilation and Circumcision in the USA |
Author | Patricia Robinett |
Pages | 164 |
Edition | May 25, 2004 |
Publisher | Nunzio Press |
ISBN | [[Special:BookSources/978-1878411112|978-1878411112]] |
Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.