The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.

Female genital cutting or mutilation refers to the cutting of girls' external genitalia. Due to migration from contexts where female genital cutting is common, it is estimated that around 38 000 cut women and girls live in Sweden. Clitoral reconstruction, a relatively new form of surgical healt...

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Autores principales:	Malin Jordal, Hannes Sigurjonsson, Gabriele Griffin, Anna Wahlberg
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:071babf7a289402692396c56a8adc16e2021-12-02T20:06:42ZThe benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0254855https://doaj.org/article/071babf7a289402692396c56a8adc16e2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254855https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Female genital cutting or mutilation refers to the cutting of girls' external genitalia. Due to migration from contexts where female genital cutting is common, it is estimated that around 38 000 cut women and girls live in Sweden. Clitoral reconstruction, a relatively new form of surgical healthcare offered to women with female genital cutting, was established in Sweden in 2014. This surgery aims at restoring clitoral function and anatomy, but there is yet a dearth of evidence demonstrating the effects of the surgery. The aim of this study was to explore how women undergoing clitoral reconstruction in Sweden between 2016 and 2019 experienced the surgical process and its aftereffects from a physical, sexual and psychosocial perspective. Eighteen women who had undergone clitoral reconstruction at a university hospital in Sweden agreed to participate in the study. The women were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The results, based on self-categorization and labelling theory, demonstrated both benefits and disappointments following the surgery. Several women reported positive outcomes in terms of sexual, psychosocial and aesthetic terms. They experienced reduced genital pain, improvements in their sex lives, and a sense of feeling more empowered and at ease in their bodies. Yet, some women reported aesthetic, functional and process-related disappointment related to clitoral reconstruction. Nonetheless, the women expressed gratitude for the possibility of undergoing the surgery. In conclusion, the women reported that they experienced physical, sexual and psychosocial benefits of the surgery.Malin JordalHannes SigurjonssonGabriele GriffinAnna WahlbergPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254855 (2021)
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description	Female genital cutting or mutilation refers to the cutting of girls' external genitalia. Due to migration from contexts where female genital cutting is common, it is estimated that around 38 000 cut women and girls live in Sweden. Clitoral reconstruction, a relatively new form of surgical healthcare offered to women with female genital cutting, was established in Sweden in 2014. This surgery aims at restoring clitoral function and anatomy, but there is yet a dearth of evidence demonstrating the effects of the surgery. The aim of this study was to explore how women undergoing clitoral reconstruction in Sweden between 2016 and 2019 experienced the surgical process and its aftereffects from a physical, sexual and psychosocial perspective. Eighteen women who had undergone clitoral reconstruction at a university hospital in Sweden agreed to participate in the study. The women were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The results, based on self-categorization and labelling theory, demonstrated both benefits and disappointments following the surgery. Several women reported positive outcomes in terms of sexual, psychosocial and aesthetic terms. They experienced reduced genital pain, improvements in their sex lives, and a sense of feeling more empowered and at ease in their bodies. Yet, some women reported aesthetic, functional and process-related disappointment related to clitoral reconstruction. Nonetheless, the women expressed gratitude for the possibility of undergoing the surgery. In conclusion, the women reported that they experienced physical, sexual and psychosocial benefits of the surgery.
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author	Malin Jordal Hannes Sigurjonsson Gabriele Griffin Anna Wahlberg
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title	The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.
title_short	The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.
title_full	The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.
title_fullStr	The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.
title_full_unstemmed	The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.
title_sort	benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: a qualitative interview study from sweden.
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The benefits and disappointments following clitoral reconstruction after female genital cutting: A qualitative interview study from Sweden.

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