I find that people usually do not like what I have to say about my experience of my surgery, but I am going to say it anyway. I had a clitoral reduction when I was 7, using the "new" nerve sparing techniques that many of you have likely heard about from your practitioners. Though my surgery was 24 years ago, very little has changed in the technique used. The corpora was removed from the middle, "sparing" the nerves and resecting the vascular bundle. The glans was then sewn back onto the stump, and the whole amputated mess was then sutured down into the infrapubic area. The visual appearance is satisfactory, but on close inspection has anomalies in structure. There is only a pin-head sized area of sensitivity remaining on the right side, and it is so inhibited by nerve and tissue damage that in 11.5 years, I have only experience orgasm twice with my partner. This is because you have to hit the area so hard in order for me to feel anything that it frightens my partner. I have a son who is now almost 7. I had him in part to try to make myself feel more securely "female," but I found that pregnancy was not the answer to my feelings about myself. Luckily, I discovered that early on and did not get too hung up on it. My point is that in my own life, the surgery made me feel bad about a body that I had been previously perfectly happy in, and I wish it had not been done until I could have made the decision myself. I cannot speak to the issue of vaginoplasties from a personal set of experiences as I did not require vaginoplasty. However, I do know that there is a failure rate of 35% and higher into adulthood. See the follow-up studies done my Kurt Newman et al. best wishes, Morgan Holmes PhD-C