old sources non medrs uncited or cited to a primary source questionnaire clitoridectomy is a technique long eschewed owing to poor cosmetic outcomes and significant damage to sexual sensation and function indeed more than a decade ago a european society for pediatric endocrinology survey called it appalling that clitoridectomy is still reported by of european centers caring for dsd intersex patients and expressed the hope that this practice will be banned completely in the near future western feminists believe that the reasons put forth to do clitoridectomy or circumcision are not legitimate because women are merely confronting what men find attractive also clitoridectomy is done to deny women sexual pleasure and satisfaction