That claim keeps getting made, no matter how much evidence there is against it. Multiple researchers have proven it doesn't completely remove sexual pleasure, just like multiple have shown circumcision also removes sensitivity, both are harmed. Anthropology research shows the >>
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2> reasons behind FGM are varied, a common one that the clitoral glans, sticking out, is seen as a male part, just like the male foreskin, a covering, is seen as female, so many cutting cultures removed both as a right of passage to adulthood. This is furthered by the fact that>>
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3> every cutting culture that cuts females cuts boys, every last one, if genital mutilation were about controlling women, they would only cut women. And even more evidence it's not about male domination is the fact that most cultures that practice it it's a female only rite, >>
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4> just like the male circumcision practices in the same cultures, it is arranged by the mother for the daughter and done by a female practitioner. Until 1979 neither was seen as a problem, then one feminist wrote an article which started the anti FGM campaign, this was >>
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5> boycotted and protested by African women, who did not believe they were mutilated, did not believe anything the article said, and saw their culture and beliefs under attack. This is the same thing that's happening now with circumcision, people arguing it's a harmless >>
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6> religious or cultural practice that needs to be left alone, that it has benefits, that it's something they must do and that it happened to them and they are fine. They are exactly the same, all the same reasons, circumcision is slightly higher than the middle form of FGM for>>
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7> damage done, and both violate the rights of the child to make irreversible decisions about their body for themselves when they grow up when it comes to non therapeutic procedures.
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Not true. Male circ is part of cultural tradition for Muslims.
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The ban on slavery was also a problem for those who opposed it.
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