Clitoraid

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

Clitoraid Adopt a Clitoris event in South Korea, July 2006

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chain Good Vibrations pledged financial support to Clitoraid including asking customers to make donations; the company rescinded the offer after protests that the effort was misplaced, especially from Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, a professor of politics at the University of San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]

The 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]

In 2015, in response to a dispute over the circumcision of a 4-year-old boy in the US, Clitoraid issued a press release supporting the mother who did not want the circumcision. They also called on the United Nations to ban the practice: "Bodily harm is against the fundamental rights of all children, and we can’t understand when a so-called civilized country such as the United States would allow its male babies to be so readily mutilated legally!"[12]

References
  1. "Clitoraid at the AVN Porn Convention in Las Vegas". Raelia News. 23 January 2007.
  2. 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. Clitoraid Inc. "Catholic Church prevents March 7 opening of Clitoraid's 'Pleasure Hospital' - Clitoraid.org Restoring a Sense of Pleasure and Dignity". clitoraid.org. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  12. "Press release: "Clitoraid supports Florida mother who faces prison for refusing to have her little boy Genitally Mutilated. Clitoraid asks U.N. to ban childhood Genital Mutilation worldwide for both genders"". Clitoraid. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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