Female Sexuality Research Articles

“내 상처에 네 손을 넣어라”: 체리에 모라가의 Heroes and Saints가 말하는 몸 없는 물질성

With the playwright’s proses that energetically emphasize the recovery and redefining of Chicanx identities and motherland, Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints usually has been interpreted as a play that represents political and religious possibilities enabled by bodiless Chicana divinity. Cerezita Valle, the play’s heroine who does not have a body under her neck due to prenatal pesticide poisoning, transfigures herself as La Virgen de Guadalupe in order to purge the polluted Madre Tierra(mother-land) and exhort the people of San Joaquin Valley to form joint confrontation. Her absent body, a powerful symbol representing Madre Tierra, expands boundlessly and works as a useful vehicle for delivering urgent political messages, incorporating diverse and divergent Chicanx communities. This article concurs with the previous studies that read Cerezita’s bodiless body as a Chicanx hero-saint who represents the encompassing and caring mother-land required by mestizas living in a world polluted by pesticides and global capitalism. However, this article also argues that Cerezita’s body cannot be read only as an immaterial symbol. Cerezita is a complicated figure which reformulates various dichotomies: political hero and religious icon, Virgin Mary and La Malinche, and ethereality and corporeality. Moraga transfigures Cerezita into La Virgen de Guadalupe with a heavy price; the playwright highlights that Cerezita yearns for female sexuality and desire, thus making it clear that the heroine should be reduced to a religious/political icon only when she painfully abandons her disabled physical corporeality. Nevertheless, by doing so, the play makes the audiences recognize Cerezita’s bodily materiality on stage that cannot be seamlessly packed up into compelling metaphors. The bipolar, ambivalent vibration of the heroine illuminates the possibility of imagining the concrete and the indefinite simultaneously, suggesting the countermeasure against and the ethical representation of the prevalent ‘slow violence’ of the global environmental crisis.

Online Male Sex Work in Kazakhstan: A Distinct Market?

Abstract In this article, I explore male sex-work in Kazakhstan and show that unlike male sex work around the world, the Kazakhstani market appears to be overwhelmingly heterosexual. Based on a sample of 200 online advertisements, this paper generates original data by providing an overview of male sex work in Kazakhstan’s two largest cities, Almaty and Nur-Sultan. This data is analyzed through a gender lens that acknowledges a shift in local gender roles and expectations and I argue that a desire for sexual emancipation, which is constrained by conservative views surrounding female sexuality explains this particular phenomenon. More precisely, I suggest that women are likely to have discreet sex with anonymous professionals rather than indulge in casual sex with strangers or acquaintances to maintain their reputation. While most gender research in Central Asia focuses on issues of re-traditionalization, this article investigates women’s sexuality and desires in Kazakhstan outside of the re-traditionalization paradigm.

Perceptions and Experiences of Pakistani-Descent Female Adolescents Living in Canada, on Developing Sexuality and Self-Identity

Immigrant adolescents make up a substantial proportion of newcomers to Canada. Most newcomer youth from South Asia aged 15 to 24 are from racialized “visible minority” backgrounds. The sexual health needs of female immigrant adolescents in Canada have been largely unmet and have increased in magnitude over the last few years. For immigrant female adolescents, the silence around issues of sexuality needs can affect their physical, emotional, sexual health, and overall well-being as well as their ability to reach their full potential. Evidence suggests that immigrant adolescents lack sexual and reproductive health knowledge and use fewer sexual health-related services and sex education resources than non-immigrant youth. In Pakistani immigrant adolescents, this difference appears to be associated with socio-cultural and religious practices. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore the experience of developing sexuality and its relationship to well-being in middle- to late-female adolescents of Pakistani-descent, living in a large urban area in Canada. The study aimed to establish space for dialogue and to bridge the perceived cultural divide on issues of sexuality using the postmodern feminist lens, which often arises between individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Using the interpretive descriptive methodology, a purposive sample of 21 female adolescents who were of first- or second-generation Pakistan-descent was obtained. Participants included female adolescents aged from 14 to 19 years. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide and a timeline. A total of 21 first interviews and seven follow up interviews were conducted. The narratives and timelines presented in this study tell the story of female Pakistani adolescents, their narratives, and the timelines reflect the complexities of the sexuality of female adolescents and how they perceive and attribute meanings to their experiences. The study found that living in a bicultural world can cause significant stress and anxiety among female adolescents, especially when making personal life decisions related to sexuality. Moreover, silence around all aspects of female sexuality negatively affects the capacity for desire and pleasure. In addition, the intersection of gender and patriarchy have created layers of power and oppression in adolescent lives that tightly control their sexuality. The participants’ stories reveal the complex interaction of factors that influence the behavior of female adolescents related to sexuality and sexual health. These findings establish the need for cultural awareness while viewing each girl’s experience in relation to the intersectionality of social spheres such as race, ethnicity, culture, and religion. Finally, this study provides implications to policymakers to revise the existing policies and create youth-friendly policies for immigrant youth to draw attention to the hidden voices of female adolescents and increase the awareness of ways to address issues arising in evolving sexuality.

"Damaged genitals"-Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden.

Female genital cutting (FGC) is a traditional practice, commonly underpinned by cultural values regarding female sexuality, that involves the cutting of women's external genitalia, often entailing the removal of clitoral tissue and/or closing the vaginal orifice. As control of female sexual libido is a common rationale for FGC, international concern has been raised regarding its potential negative effect on female sexuality. Most studies attempting to measure the impact of FGC on women's sexual function are quantitative and employ predefined questionnaires such as the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). However, these have not been validated for cut women, or for all FGC-practicing countries or communities; nor do they capture cut women's perceptions and experiences of their sexuality. We propose that the subjective nature of sexuality calls for a qualitative approach in which cut women's own voices and reflections are investigated. In this paper, we seek to unravel how FGC-affected women themselves reflect upon and perceive the possible connection between FGC and their sexual function and intimate relationships. The study has a qualitative design and is based on 44 individual interviews with 25 women seeking clitoral reconstruction in Sweden. Its findings demonstrate that the women largely perceived the physical aspects of FGC, including the removal of clitoral tissue, to affect women's (including their own) sexual function negatively. They also recognized the psychological aspects of FGC as further challenging their sex lives and intimate relationships. The women desired acknowledgment of the physical consequences of FGC and of their sexual difficulties as “real” and not merely “psychological blocks”.

Adichie’s Commitment to Female Biological Experiences in African Literature

Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (1987) challenged African women writers to be committed about women and their biological experiences in wife repudiation and widowhood in her article entitled “The Female Writer and Her Commitment”. In view of this challenge, this article examined Adichie’s portrayal of female biological experiences in Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, the short story entitled Imitation and The Visit. The theoretical framework used in this article is African Feminism. It is established that in Purple Hibiscus, adolescent sexuality is expressed within the ambience of Igbo socialization in which sexual matters are discrete and respected. The expression of female sexuality in Half of a Yellow Sun is audacious, portraying cohabitation which has no merit in Igbo culture in spite of the ravaging civil war setting. The representation of sexual expression in Americanah through the adolescent peering between Ifemelu and Obinze is too detailed for the emotional health of the Igbo adolescent because it disrupted a legal family. Imitation and The Visit negotiated the African family so that the husband and the wife will complement each other while female sexuality is not compromised. It could be concluded that through her prose fictions, Adichie has responded adequately to Molara Ogundipe- Leslie’s challenge to African female writers. Finally, this article recommends that woman’s biological experiences should be fundamental and respected in romantic and family love relationships.

REPRESENTATION OF THE OTHER IN WESTERN HISTORY: A POSTCOLONIAL READING

Much of the European discourse on the Other has been informed by canonical figures like Kant, Hegel, and Freud, who have misrepresented the non-European non-white with special emphasis on women who were believed to be generally inferior to men.This has urged postmodern and postcolonial writers like Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Franz Fanon, and Luce Irigaray to counter those writers in order to rewrite the history and identity of women and the non-European. This paper traces the history of ideas regarding the representation of the Other and offers a postcolonial critique of theories advanced by Kant, Hegel, and Freud. Kant represented the Other as lacking judgment faculties whose taste and moral judgment cannot be compared to the wise European. Hegel excluded the Other from history and alleged that the only history is European since he believes that the Other is incapable of writing history. Finally, Freud portrayed the Other as savage and primitive whose mind resembles his neurotic patients. He also represented women’s sexuality as inferior to men. Such misrepresentations have resulted in a long history of dehumanization and prejudices towards the Other. This has triggered the emergence of the postcolonial discourse in order to balance the Othering process. For instance, Spivak attacked Kant for disempowering and excluding the non-Europeans from his Critique of Judgment.She also critiqued Hegel for creating Oriental stereotypes in his Philosophy of History. Hegel’s master/slave dialectic has been deconstructed by Franz Fanon, who argues that the black cannot attain self-recognition through the gaze of the white, since the black has always been portrayed as inferior in the white’s discourse. Irigaray challenged Freud by arguing that he lacks an understanding of female sexuality. Edward Said contradicted Freud’s ambivalent notion of the non-European. Such revisionist history aims at rewriting the Other’s image and identity.

Misrepresentation of Female Sexual Behavior in Pornography

ABSTRACT Introduction Female sexual wellness is a highly complex condition that builds not only on biological factors, but also on social norms, background, religion, education, and social media. One source where both women and men learn about sexual behavior, interactions, and expectations is pornography. This resource has become widely available to anyone with access to the internet. While pornography is a way of expanding sexual horizons, like any media it may misrepresent more common behaviors and expectations for both genders. Objective The purpose of this review is to evaluate how women's sexuality is portrayed in the most commonly viewed pornography videos in order to understand its role in female sexual health. Methods Videos from the category “most viewed videos” based on internet ratings were viewed. We analyzed the content and female and male sexual behaviors portrayed. Results We reviewed the 25 most viewed videos by the general public from the five most popular free pornography websites. The two most commonly viewed contexts were sexual encounters between step relatives (16%) and during casting sessions (16%). With the majority of videos having two participants (92%), two videos included three and five participants. Overall, only 9 (36%) videos demonstrated at least one female orgasm with 5 (20 %) videos showing clitoral stimulation before reaching orgasm. Only 4 (16%) videos did not demonstrate male orgasm. Similarly, only 8 (32%) videos pictured a female as the recipient of oral sex, whereas all but 3 (12%) videos showed the male as the recipient. Only in one (4%) video did a woman have more than one orgasm. Anal sex was represented in 4 (16%) of videos, with novelty toy uses in one (4%) video. Conclusions We found that he most viewed videos on popular pornography sites did not represent the most common real life sexual scenarios and were predominantly male-pleasure centered.Inaccurate portrayal of female sexuality can contribute to sexual performance anxiety, unfulfilled expectations among both partners, and sexual dysfunction. More research is needed to determine the best referral websites and categories for women and their partners, representing more realistic female sexual behavior. Disclosure No

Are Endogenous Androgens Linked to Female Sexuality? A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis

ABSTRACT Introduction The benefits of treatment with testosterone (T) in women with loss of desire suggest that low androgens may distinguish women with sexual dysfunction (SD) from others; however, evidence on this point is lacking. Objective To answer the question: is there an association between endogenous levels of androgens and sexual function in women? Methods An extensive search was performed in MEDLINE, Embase and PsycInfo. Four separate meta-analyses were conducted for total T, free T, Free Androgen Index (FAI) and Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS). Cohort, cross-sectional and prospective studies were included.The main outcome was the association between endogenous androgens and sexual desire. Global sexual function was considered as a secondary outcome. The effect measure was expressed as standardized mean difference (SMD). Results The meta-analysis on total T included 34 studies involving 3268 women, mean age 36.5 years. In 11 studies, a significant association was found between sexual desire, measured by validated psychometric instruments, and total T [SMD=0.59 (0.29; 0.88), p<0.0001], with a moderate effect. The association with global sexual function (n=12 studies) was also significant [SMD=0.44 (0.21; 0.67), p<0.0001]. Overall, total T was associated with a better sexual function [SMD=0.55 (0.28; 0.82), p<0.0001], with similar results obtained when Poor quality studies were removed. No association was found between total T and sexual function in PCOS or healthy women. Age showed a negative relationship with the overall outcome. No differences were found when stratifying the studies according to menopausal status, relationship status, method for T measurement (immunoassays, radioimmunoassays or mass spectrometry) or phase of the menstrual cycle. The meta-analysis of T derivatives (free T and FAI) also showed a significant, moderate association with sexual desire. In contrast, DHEAS seems not to exert any significant influence on desire, whilst showing a positive association with global sexual function. Conclusions There appears to be a moderate association between total T levels and sexual desire/global sexual function, which is confirmed, although weak, in studies employing LC-MS. Similar results on desire were obtained for free T and FAI. DHEAS only showed a positive association with global sexual function. More research is needed. Disclosure No

Prevalence of female sexual dysfunction among diabetic females: a cross-sectional case controlled study

ABSTRACT Background Sexual relationships, sexual functions are all parts of the female sexual identity and which influence physiological, psychological, and reproductive functions of women. Aim of the work The study aimed to identify prevalence of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) in women affected by type 1 and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and to evaluate the impact of diabetes on female sexuality. Patient and Methods This cross-sectional study was carried out on 400 married females who were interviewed to answer Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) questionnaire and were divided into two groups: the first group included 300 diabetes patients (134 patients with type 1 DM and 166 patients with type 2 DM), while the second included 100 women not diagnosed with diabetes who served as controls. Results Considering female sexual dysfunction (score < 26.55), there was statistically significant increase of patients with female sexual dysfunction (FSD) in Type 1 DM (50.7%) when compared to type 2 DM patients (28.9%) or control group (10.0%). Conclusion FSD is a significant health problem in premenopausal women complaining of DM. Females with type 1 DM were more affected than females with type 2 DM, who in turn were more affected than healthy controls. Long duration of the disease was the main risk factor for developing FSD.

Female Sexuality in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Factors and Sexual Response Associated with Masturbation

Objectives Sexual health includes the state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being related to sexuality. Masturbation is an important sexual activity with many potential benefits which has gained considerable interest in sexuality research in the past twenty years; however, this research is the first of its kind within the Aotearoa/New Zealand context. In this in-depth investigation, we examined frequencies of, reasons for, and activities during masturbation as well as the relationship between masturbation and other factors. Methods Participants were 698 New Zealand women at least 18 years of age participating in a 42-item anonymous online survey collecting comprehensive information about sexual practices and related factors. Results The results indicated that female masturbation has high prevalence in the New Zealand population. Conclusion The pattern of results enabled us to identify the positive effects of masturbation, masturbation practices commonly used by New Zealand women and the differences between New Zealand women who masturbate frequently and less frequently.

«Tutto parla in termini sessuali»: educazione sessuale, adolescenza e verginità in "Domani è troppo tardi" (1950)

This paper analyzes the debate on sexual education emerged in the Italian press following the release of the film “Domani è troppo tardi” (Léonide Moguy, 1950). In Post-War Italy, the theme of sexual knowledge occupies the public discourse, with an emphasis on the control of female sexuality and the affirmation of virginity. Even the iconographic and textual representations of the main character, the sixteen-year-old Anna Maria Pierangeli, trace the stereotypes of virtue and female sacrifice, in line with a traditional morality and the Catholic conception of femininity. The intense debate catalyzed by the film describes adolescence as a hybrid territory: an asphyxiating place characterized by precepts, opinions, clinical observations, and control schemes; but also a transitional stage stimulated by the new sexualization of the cultural industry.

“Children of the Mantled-Birth”: Georgia Douglas Johnson, Photography in The Crisis, and the Politics of Black Childhood

This essay examines Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poetic depictions of Black motherhood and childhood in the annual “Children’s Numbers” of The Crisis that appeared from 1912 to 1934. Visually and discursively, the run of “Children’s Numbers” stages the modern crucible of educating Black children on the realities of racism and contends with racialized notions of childhood innocence. This essay considers how Johnson’s poems respond to such ideas of education and innocence in W.E.B. Du Bois’ editorials on childhood and the photographs of Black children that appeared in these issues. Focusing primarily on Johnson’s motherhood poems that appeared in the “Children’s Numbers” and the striking photographs of children that accompanied these poems, this essay asserts that Johnson’s poems disrupt racialized notions of childhood innocence, intervene in discourses on Black education, and challenge the representational politics of the “Children’s Numbers” by centering the epistemological perspective of Black motherhood. Furthermore, this essay argues for the benefits of reading Johnson’s motherhood poems in relation to her erotic poetry, demonstrating that Johnson’s poetry of Black motherhood addresses the sexual politics of the Black bourgeoisie at the turn of the century and creates a space for the expression of Black female sexuality.

Clitoral Anatomy in the Feminist Literature: Vagina obscura: An anatomical voyage (2020) and Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions: Graphical representations in anatomy texts, c1900-1991 (1995).

O'Connell et al. proposed that the vestibular bulbs be renamed the "clitoral bulbs" because of their consistent relationship to the clitoris and inconsistent relationship to the vestibule. Normally such proposed esoteric changes in anatomical nomenclature would get little notice by anatomists, yet alone the general public; however, many subsequent articles and books placed this change in the context of centuries of male anatomists and physicians downplaying female sexual anatomy and sexuality. Most prominent is a 2022 book by Rachel Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. Here we review this "Anatomical Voyage" and find author bias in omitting/including erroneous facts in this book. We also present a critique of a 1995 article that appeared in Feminist Studies; Graphical Representations in Anatomy Texts, c1900-1991. This article, which has been repeatedly cited in the clinical literature, asserts that between circa 1950-1980 anatomy textbooks purposely eliminated depicting/labeling the clitoris in illustrations because the authors of the textbooks were reflecting societal norms that de-emphasized the importance of the clitoris. Unfortunately, the methods used by Moore and Clarke are not replicable; and further, their conclusions were not justified because of clear bias in their description and depiction of the anatomy sources they review.

Introduction: Global TV Images of Female Masculinity in the 2010s

Abstract This introductory article to the special Forum “Global TV Images of Female Masculinity in the 2010s” offers a reflection on the concept of “female masculinity” in global media and gender studies. Witnessing a growing number of TV representations of masculine girls and women worldwide, we present a summary of the four articles which comprise this themed Forum and address a number of key issues in their case studies, including televisual imaginaries of heterosexual, masculine women, the cultural legitimization of global female masculinities on reality TV, and the racialization and stigmatization of masculine women in White heteronormative societies. The Forum thus promotes a critical dialogue that aims to stimulate further interest in this interdisciplinary field by emphasizing the mutual implications of gendered TV genres and tropes, cross-cultural currents of gender, sexual, and racial knowledge and politics, and the intersectionality of female gender, sexuality, race, and nationality in TV representations.

Juanita Brooks's Footnote: History, Memory, and the Murder of Olivia Coombs

Juanita Brooks's Footnote: History, Memory, and the Murder of Olivia Coombs

PEREMPUAN DALAM VIDEO GIM : Representasi Perempuan Dalam Dead or Alive 6

In media industry, women are often represented as an object which cannot be separated from their sexual attractiveness. This kind of female sexualization also presents in various video games, such as Dead or Alive 6. Through this study, researcher tries to understand how female characters are represented in Dead or Alive 6 using Roland Barthes’s semiotic analysis. As for the result, four picked characters, Kasumi, Honoka, Marie Rose, and Momiji represent signs of sexualization such as their fashion, innocence, legal character but looks like an underage, or a paradox between sacredness and taboo. The sexualization of characters in Dead or Alive 6 turns the sexual traits of legal female characters as its selling point. Dead or Alive 6 sexualizes its female characters as part of its selling value by selling various expensive downloadable contents (DLC) in form of maid, bikini, or any other sexy costumes that has nothing to do with characters’ ability. The “water mode” and “soft mode” also can be considered as sexual exploitation towards the female characters as its selling point. It can be read that the game takes advantage from the players’ sexual fantasy as a goldmine.

Writing Sexuality in the Autobiographical Form A Reflection of Mona Prince’s Novel So You May See

This article explores the representation of the female body and sexuality in modern Arab women’s writing in Egypt, focusing on the 1990s generation and the emergence of a new literary trend of explicit writing, or so-called kitābath al-jasad, which exposes bodily subjects using explicit sexual language, prohibited sensual themes, and erotic fantasies as tools of revolt against social and political taboos and as a means of challenging extremist Islamic religious rhetoric and the patriarchal authority. My representative example of this generation and this writing is Egyptian novelist Mona Prince. In her novel, So You May See (2011), experience connects to nakedness protest movements by using the body as a key vehicle to protest fundamentalist religious powers that oppose women’s liberation. In both contexts of body protest (clothed or unclothed), female sexuality is the tool par excellence to combat religious extremist rhetoric that amplifies hostility towards women.

Feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress: Tracing a pattern

This paper describes a pattern regarding the relationship between feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress that was discerned in two independent multiple case studies in Greece. One study utilized grounded theory to develop a model of therapeutic change through recording the development of voice hearers’ understanding and coping with their voices during a therapeutic intervention. The other study applied biographical and thematic analysis to interviews with persons with psychosis and their families, in order to explore family narratives regarding life with a family member with psychosis. A common pattern was detected for all the female participants, whereby following a religious upbringing in childhood and pursuing independence from the family together with social and sexual exploration in early adulthood, the onset of psychosis marked a return to the family home and a religious frame of reference. The psychotic experiences seemed to resemble engrained experiences of shaming regarding sexual and gender norms. Moreover, they had the effect of re-signifying female identity and sexuality, bringing them into line with conservative religious principles. This pattern suggests that psychotic experiences may not only express culturally prescribed female gender norms but also may serve to regulate women’s sexuality in conservative religious cultural environments.

I Like a Girl Who Can Eat

In mainstream discourse on the genre, the contemporary young adult (YA) supernatural romance is frequently dismissed as one-dimensional and low quality; literature that reproduces traditional and conservative ideologies of gender and sexuality for an undiscerning adolescent female audience. In this article I contest this dismissal, arguing that the genre contains complex and contradictory representations of femininity and female sexuality, and that these representations expose and rehearse ambivalence surrounding adolescent girls and girlhood in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on the growing disciplines of both romance and YA studies, I conduct this contestation through close reading and analysis of Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls series, which consists of Shiver (2009), Linger (2010), Forever (2011), and Sinner (2014). Ambivalence and complexity are discussed in the series through representations of female gustatory and sexual hunger as well as food and feasting and the presence of the supernatural through representations of female lycanthropy. Through the symbolic associations of food with sexuality and sexual activity, scenes of female gustatory hunger and feasting within the corpus attempt to negotiate the engrained diet culture and repression of adolescent female sexual desire within the late 2000s and early 2010s in the anglophone world. Female hunger and appetite are at once encouraged and praised (within human characters) and presented as dangerous and in need of restriction (within female lycanthropes). This emphasises the still-rigid boundaries and fears surrounding feminine excess. In this article, I not only analyse the ambivalence and anxiety that surround adolescent girls during this period, but also emphasise the importance of popular literature as a site in which these attitudes and anxieties can be explored, resisted, and reproduced.

Platelet-rich plasma: An effective modality to improve sexuality in FGM/C

Now, accepted treatments for Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) are limited to surgical, psychological, behavioral, hormonal and psychopharmacologic interventions. Because of the complex and multifactorial nature of FSD, current therapeutic options may leave a subset of women suffering with sexual dysfunction without clinical improvement and may be with side effects of the procedures. This is a study to evaluate the effect of platelet rich plasma (PRP) in treating FSD FGM/C. PRP was administered to the anterior vaginal wall (1 session), clitoris of 45 females with FGM/C and non-FGM/C with sexual dysfunction and orgasmic disorder [Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) total score ≤ 26 orgasmic subdomain score ≤ 3.75]. The correlation between PRP sessions and FSFI domain scores was done with Pearson's correlation and linear regression analysis. Following the application of the PRP, the total FSFI score was converted significantly in both FGM/C and non-FGM/C ( P < 0.05). A significant change was observed in all sub-domains of FSFI score after PRP ( P < 0.05). The total FSFI score increased in all 45 females [16 non-FGM/C and 29 FGM/C] ( P < 0.05). That correlations between all sub-domains of FSFI score before and after PRP injection were significantly positive ( P < 0.05). Also, there were statistically significant positive correlations between total FSFI scores before and after PRP injection, and sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of the study population in both FGM/C and non-FGM/C. As a minimally invasive method, PRP administration to the distal anterior vaginal wall may improve female sexuality with high satisfaction in FGM/C.