Deb,

I don't understanding your reasoning.  You say that the results of the clitoroplasty you had as an infant caused you to suffer psychologically and as a result you needed psychotherapy.  I had surgery, a clitorectomy.  The results of my surgery certainly did not leave a large clitoris but even so I was in psychotherapy for twenty years and that psychotherapy began when I was eleven, many years before I discovered that my clitoris had been completely removed.

Why would you advocate what even today amounts to experimental clitoral surgery on infants when by your own admission such surgery failed to help you?  At least when you had surgery done by your own choice you were finally satisfied even though you suffered a period of nerve damage. Many of us are not so fortunate. We have suffered permanent physical and psychological damage even though the cosmetic result of our surgeries was pleasing to our parents and doctors.

Joan