A Cut In The Brain, by Kate Orson

What do you know about the cervix? Maybe you have a vague idea that it’s involved in childbirth, and that it can become cancerous. Or perhaps you are already aware of its orgasmic nature.
I learnt about the cervix the hard way, when a common medical procedure called LLETZ, which removes abnormal cells from the cervix, caused me to lose my sexual function.

Sex became painful. I lost my libido, and almost completely lost my ability to orgasm.

Terrified of what had happened, I didn’t return to the doctor and instead tried to heal myself through yoga, meditation and learning about the relationship between sex and spirituality.
Twelve years later, still traumatised by what had happened to me, I found an article written by a woman called Asha. She had experienced the same problems I had with sex, but she also articulated more intangible side effects to her creativity, thinking, and her very perception of being a human being existing in a sensual world.

Asha and I started to talk regularly, and I learnt that there wasn’t something wrong with my body, but with the procedure itself. When Asha could not get answers about what had happened to her from a top gynaecologist and neurologist in the UK she flew to the US to meet sexuality expert Dr. Irwin Goldstein.

Dr. Goldstein told her that there are vital neural connections between the cervix and the brain that are damaged by the LLETZ procedure. Shockingly, there are very few doctors who are aware of the up to date research about the cervix, and so they are cutting into a part of the body they do not understand. We began to realise that there are thousands of women out there like us, living in silence, and being told their symptoms are ‘all in your head'.

A Cut In The Brain is a memoir about discovering the truth about what lies behind gynaecology; that there has never been any full anatomy done of the female sexual organs, and every gynaecological procedure is a literal ‘stab in the dark.’

It’s about two women; one who runs from the medical system and tries to heal herself with alternative medicine, and another who stays to fight. It’s about the power of friendship to transcend the darkness of our sexist culture. It’s about the growing circle of women who are standing up to the harm caused by gynaecology.

This book is for anyone who has ever had a smear test, or who wants to support their partners and friends in a world where women’s health is still built upon an outdated patriarchal system. It’s also for those who’ve ever wondered if there’s something ‘more’ to sex.

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