Vagina dentata revisited: Gender and asymptomatic shedding of genital herpes

Pliskin, Karen L.

doi:10.1007/bf01379399

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“…In contrast, the anatomy of the genital tract in men and the fact that the genital epithelium is predominantly skin and not mucosa have made less plausible the concept of asymptomatic shedding from men's genital skin. This issue was illustrated in a study of physicians' attitudes toward asymptomatic shedding of HSV, 31 in which both male and female physicians tended to dismiss the possibility of asymptomatic shedding in men as anatomically implausible. We found that this reasoning is erroneous; the rates of subclinical shedding among men approximated those among women.…”

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Reactivation of Genital Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection in Asymptomatic Seropositive Persons

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Reactivation of Genital Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection in Asymptomatic Seropositive Persons

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It Is As It Does: Genital Form and Function in Sex Reassignment Surgery

Plemons

2013

J Med Humanit

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Surgeons who perform sex reassignment surgeries (SRS) define their goals and evaluate their outcomes in terms of two kinds of results: aesthetic and functional. Since the neogenitals fashioned through sex reassignment surgeries do not enable reproductive function, surgeons must determine what the function of the genitals is or ought to be. A review of surgical literature demonstrates that questions of what constitute genital form and function, while putatively answered in the operating room, are not answerable in the discourses of clinical evaluation used to define them. When the genitals--the word itself derived from the Latin genitas meaning to beget--are not reproductive, the question of their function shifts away from the biological and into other registers: pleasure, intimacy, sociality. As condensed sites of meaning and meaning-making around which selves, affects, resources, anxieties and futures are organized, the genitals signify in excess of the categories of "aesthetic" and "function" that surgeons use to assess them. Not reducible to either aesthetics or function, but constitutive of them both, this excess appears in surgical texts in the form of imagined futures of social and sexual engagement and demonstrates a powerful means by which properly sexed bodies are created.

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