The Husband Stitch Isn’t Just a Horrifying Childbirth Myth
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My wife got stitched up after childbirth too tightly due to an inexperienced FEMALE doctor. We were both conscious, both present, my wife was lucid (and exhausted).
Now all sex is painful and there hasn't been actual penetration for 7 months since the little one was born.
No one from our caucasian circles have even heard about it.
> "The fact that there is even a practice called the husband stitch is a perfect example of the intersection of the objectification of women’s bodies and healthcare"
There is no practise. The term was made up by a woman in the original "exposé".
Is there crooked doctors and dumb husbands? Sure. But it's not some world wide conspiracy against women.
Your first sentence indicates that you (correctly) think there is a world-wide conspiracy against women, it's just not as prevelant in some locations and recent history.
I'm amazed (and strangely optimistic) about the fact that people could assume this is a myth. Optimistic in that it suggests that they've grown up in a better world, just as people would be amazed if you told them when it became legal to marry outside your race, or illegal to be denied bank account based on being a woman, etc. I'd prefer they were both appalled and informed, but if we're only going to get one then appalled is better.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=husband+stitch...
Appears that its use really took off with the story, but was something known and at least sometimes practiced before then.
It's also not what you should expect when you're in the hospital as a baby. Yet millions of American men have been circumcised.