The rape of innocence (book)
Title The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA
Author Patricia Robinett
Publisher Nunzio Press (May 25, 2004)
Length 164 pages
Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.
ISBN-10: 187841111X ISBN-13: 978-1878411112
Book review by Attorney for the right's of the child J. Steven Svoboda
