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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So tired of this stupid idea that male and female circumcision have no relation whatsoever. It just shows that there is vast ignorance about a) the analogous male and female genital structures and b) the realities of the wide range of female genital cuttings that occur around the world.

A) Females do have foreskins. The clitoral hood is the exact same structure as the foreskin. In utero, the genital structures are identical at the earliest fetal stages before they begin to differentiate under the influence of hormones. Look it up. Technical term is the prepuce for both males and females.

B) The World Health Organization classifies female genital cutting into four types. Type I, which may involve only the removal of the female prepuce, is the equivalent of male circumcision as practiced in the U.S.

http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/overview/en/

FGC is not always practiced in the bush with rusty tin can lids by poor, "primitive" cultures as is commonly imagined. In North Africa and Southeast Asia, for example, it's often performed in hospitals -- by upper and middle-class people -- for what they believe to be hygienic and or religious reasons.

Many women who have undergone circumcision will claim that it's cleaner, reduces disease, and that they have perfectly good sex lives, and that they want the same for their daughters.
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This.  Thank you for articulating this so well, PP.  [/quote]

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