"The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Youn...

 

 

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"The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. When the..."

via maia medicine on 1/22/11

"The effacement of the clitoris extends even to Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl. When the unabridged edition of the diaries were released in 1995, the 50th anniversary of her death, they included the previously deleted passages that contained some of Anne's negative remarks about her housemates and parents as well as a lengthy entry from March 24, 1944 in which she describes her vulva, clitoris, and vagina from the perspective of her own fifteen year old gaze: "…Until I was eleven or twelve, I didn't realize there was a second set of labia on the inside, since you couldn't see them. What's even funnier is that I thought urine came out of the clitoris…When you're standing up, all you see from the front is hair. Between your legs there are two soft, cushiony things, also covered with hair, which press together when you're standing, so you can't see what's inside. They separate when you sit down and they're very red and quite fleshy on the inside. In the upper part, between the outer labia, there's a fold of skin that, on second thought, looks like a kind of blister. That's the clitoris…""<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/random/clit-talk-removed-from-diary-of-anne-frank/">The expurgation of the clitoris in the diary of Anne Frank | HTMLGIANT</a> (via <a href="http://caitlinate.tumblr.com/">caitlinate</a>)</em>

 

 

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