Clitoraid

Clitoraid Adopt a Clitoris event in South Korea, July 2006

Clitoraid is a non-profit project started by the Raelian movement to combat female genital mutilation.

The project was started in 2005[1] or 2006.[2] The Raelian movement sees sexual gratification as a positive thing and Clitoraid has sponsored clitoral reconstruction for African women and sought to build a hospital in Burkina Faso[3][4] where they can also receive post-operative instruction in masturbation.[5] Clitoraid has an Adopt a Clitoris sponsorship program,[6] which it has promoted at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.[1][7]

In 2010, on the encouragement of sexologist Betty Dodson, the San Francisco-based sex shop chain Good Vibrations pledged financial support to Clitoraid including asking customers to make donations; the company rescinded the offer after protests that the effort was misplaced, especially from Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.[2][8] In 2013 Clitoraid designated the week of 6-12 May as "International Clitoris Awareness Week".[9]

In 2014 opening of the Kamkaso Hospital or The Pleasure Hospital at Bobo-Dioulasso was delayed by the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health.[10] Clitoraid blamed the Catholic Church.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Clitoraid at the AVN Porn Convention in Las Vegas". Raelia News. 23 January 2007.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Blue, Violet (19 May 2010). "Good Vibrations And The Clitoris Saving Alien Cult". SF Appeal.
  3. ↑ Strickland, Eliza (19 February 2008). "Raelians Rocket From Clones to Clitorises". Wired. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "Deploring death of teenage Kenyan FGM Victim". Newstime Africa. 23 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "'Pleasure hospital' in Burkina Faso to restore clitoral functioning for women mutilated in childhood". Raelia News. 16 May 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Adopt A Clitoris". Raelia News. 15 May 2006.
  7. ↑ Fretwell, Alonzo (31 January 2011). "Clitoraid at 2011 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas". Raelia News.
  8. ↑ Millner, Caille (14 April 2010). "Wrong approach to ending genital mutilation". San Francisco Chronicle.
  9. ↑ Moye, David (5 February 2013). "'International Clitoris Awareness Week' Takes Place May 6-12 (NSFW)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  10. ↑ Lloyd-Roberts, Sue (16 March 2014). "FGM, Clitoraid and The Pleasure Hospital: US sect the Raëlians’ quest to ‘restore’ women scarred by female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso". The Independent.
  11. ↑ http://www.clitoraid.org/news.php?extend.160

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