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The Igros Moshe was asked whether her husband would be allowed
to live with her following the operation. He responded as follows: “It
is clear that she is permitted to him…even though she will be unable
to have children. There is no issue of the prohibition of emitting se-
men for naught since it is in the normal manner of intercourse, in the
same way that intercourse is permitted with an elderly or a sterile
woman and it makes no difference that this woman has no uterus.
This is stated explicitly by Rashi in Yevamos (42) who explains that a
barren woman – whom the baraisa says must wait three months be-
fore remarrying – refers to woman whose womb has been removed.
It must be so, for ‘a sterile woman’ and ‘a woman who cannot have
children’ are listed separately, so to what kind of infertility does ‘a
barren woman’ refer? Certainly it refers to a woman whose womb has
been removed as Rashi explains, as does the Nimukei Yosef there. See
Rashi in Kesuvos (60), who explains that ‘a woman who cannot have
children’ refers to a woman whose uterus has been removed…at any
rate according to both explanations she is allowed to remarry after
three months for if having intercourse with her is considered emitting
semen for naught, she would never be allowed to remarry and how
would three months be relevant?”

The question under consideration here is that this woman previ-
ously had no vagina and the physicians fashioned her an artificial one
– will intercourse with her be permitted in this situation?

As stated above, the Knesses Yechezkel and the Yaavetz disagree
about a child born with a male organ cleft from the corona all the way
down etc. over whether a blessing is made on his circumcision. My
father-in-law Rav Y.S. Elyashiv zt”l, ruled that if the organ is formed
like all other male organs, with blood vessels and spaces which be-
come swollen and fill up with a large quantity of blood under high
pressure, and this happens as the result of stimulation and the organ
becomes enlarged and hard, making marital relations possible, the
child is male. However, if the organ has not developed normally and
lacks the characteristics of a regular male organ and will be unable
to conduct marital relations it is likely a flap of flesh, as the Yaavetz
writes.

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