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Universal Bleaching Syndrome as Vaginal Pathology

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Scholars of human sexuality have perpetuated a racially homogeneous discourse immune to the prudent analysis of sex-related pathologies. Their minimal documentations in peer-reviewed papers and other scholarly publication is a reflection of such homogeneity (Smart & Smart, 2017). Therefore, in the process of diagnosis, treatment, and cure of pathology is then a Caucasian skin color-limited treatment method. Subsequently, women of color, i.e., darker-skinned confronted by sexuality issues pertaining to skin color are disserved by the academy and the health sciences at large. Dominated by a homogeneous Caucasian race discourse where skin color is subjugated by race, health issues relative to skin color are in affect dismissed from health relevancy (Juarez & Hayes, 2015). In the aftermath is a normalization of pathologies impacting women of color where the idealization of light skin is a factor in assessing vaginal health. Although Caucasian women may resort to vaginal bleaching, they do so for different reasons relative to colorism among people of color.

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Hall, R.E. (2021). Universal Bleaching Syndrome as Vaginal Pathology. In: The Historical Globalization of Colorism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84335-9_6

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