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clitoris
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clitoris
a part of the female genitalia consisting of a small elongated highly sensitive erectile organ at the front of the vulva: homologous with the penis

clitoris [′klid·ə·rəs]
(anatomy)
The homolog of the penis in females, located in the anterior portion of the vulva.


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On another mountain you might see women from a neighboring oppressive culture excising the clitorises and labia of their daughters.
The blade represents the institution of patriarchy, and though it actually cuts - severs - the trees' bodies, much like those blades which remove women's clitorises, the hands that hold it, that maintain it are themselves trees, women who are gears in the political machinery of patriarchy.
Ecdysiasm, 1992, describes the impulse to disrobe in public, using overlapping images of aberrant enlarged labia and phalliform clitorises.
 
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