Talk:Dorsal slit

Maasai practice

A variety of "dorsal slit" circumcisoon was once predominant amongst the Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania, and is still practised and found in many of the more remote regions of the very large area known as "Maasailand" generally.

However the Maasai operation is different in this: rather than a dorsal slit from the opening of the prepuce tpo the corona, a heart shaped "oval" is excised from the dorsum of the prepuce and the glans is pushed through this hole. Later the edges of the cut prepuce will heal. to heal.

This leaves the prepuce intact and hanging down, but the glans exposed. Maasai men swear that this greatly enhances males and female sexual enjoyment.

Formerly tribes that copied the Maasai like the numerous Kikuyu of Kenya also practised the same form of circumcision. Photos of the operation and result are numerously found in specialized Africana books. Carol Beckwith and Tepelit Ole Saitoti's "Maasai" being, I believe, one of them and available on the Open Library project here.

There are even words for the resultant "prepuaial flap" in Maa and Gikuyu languages and possibly other African tongues. In Gikuyu the word, now archais, is likely to be "Ngwati".

This editor has personally seen naked Maasai men and youths who have most obviously undergone this special form of "superincision" and they are commonly found around the Shompole-Lake Natron-Ngorongoro area of Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania.

Numerous Maasai and anthropological authors of culture have described this proceedure.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.80.226.189 (talk) 15:56, 5 July 2011‎ (UTC)

Need for references to reliable sources

This article contains no references to reliable sources. Unless the intention is to expand it and include references to reliable sources its contents should probably be merged into another article. --Johncoz (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Some additional thoughts. Dorsal slit procedure is rarely performed in Western countries now because of poor cosmesis. However, I note this article is apparently from a Chinese-language version of Wikipedia, and IF reliable sources can be found showing the procedure is still in use there, then that could lead somewhere. As if stands however, this article is unlikely to survive long in the total absence of any sources at all.Johncoz (talk) 23:45, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Salvage operation

I have collected a fair number of medical and ethnographic references on dorsal slit and will over the next day or so attempt to rework this article.Johncoz (talk) 00:11, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Castration not Circumcision

Removed thumb|Earliest known circumcision or a dorsal slit? as the photo depicts castration not circumcision.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Drealgrin (talk • contribs) 05:40, 27 March 2011‎ (UTC)

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