Psychic Caroline

Community story

Just found out I don’t have a clitoris

Jul 23, 2026

A young woman shared something that completely changed the way she saw herself. She was almost 22 when she discovered that something had happened to her body before she was old enough to remember. Growing up, she never received proper sex education. She attended girls-only schools and was never taught much about female anatomy or sexual health, so she always assumed her experience was normal. During one of the darkest periods of her life, she started learning more about sex and relationships. She wanted to understand her own body and what intimacy meant. One night, out of curiosity, she decided to explore her body for the first time. But something felt wrong. She felt almost nothing. Confused, she started researching and comparing what she was experiencing with what other women described. That was when she discovered the truth. She realized she had undergone female genital mutilation as a child. She had no memory of it. She was too young. But someone had made a decision about her body before she was old enough to understand what was happening. She described feeling numb at first. Then came the anger. Anger toward the people who allowed it. Anger toward a tradition that had taken away her ability to choose. And the hardest question: “How do you process something that happened to you before you even had a voice?” Stories like this are complicated because they involve family, culture, belief, and personal identity. Some people believe traditions should be respected because they are part of a community’s history. Others believe no tradition should ever override an individual’s right to their own body. Where do you think the line should be? Can a cultural practice ever be justified if someone’s body and choices are taken away?