Nullectomy
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Plastic surgery to remove external genitalia in order to create a smooth groin appearance; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo. uncountable
"I don’t know how much more of this our culture can take. “Gender-affirming” surgeries are growing increasingly extreme. A source sent me links to websites operated by doctors who perform “bottom surgeries” advertising “genital nullification” — a.k.a. “nullectomy” — procedures that remove genitalia in order to create a “smooth” appearance in the groin."
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More examples"I don’t know how much more of this our culture can take. “Gender-affirming” surgeries are growing increasingly extreme. A source sent me links to websites operated by doctors who perform “bottom surgeries” advertising “genital nullification” — a.k.a. “nullectomy” — procedures that remove genitalia in order to create a “smooth” appearance in the groin."
Etymology
From null + -ectomy, by analogy with other terms for gender-affirming surgery like penectomy.
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