Questions tagged [female-genital-mutilation]

Female genital mutilation, also called "female circumcision", or "female genital cutting".

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Does Female Genital Mutilation reduce the ability to feel sexual pleasure?

Jimmy Miller said in a Quora answer: Apparently, the most extreme forms account only for 10% of them all: in most cases, the ability to feel sexual pleasure is not reduced at all (my source is the aforementioned article by Brian D Earp). The…
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Does Sitt al-Banaat Khaalid exist, and did she write about the benefits of FGM?

Various sites report that a gynecologist named Sitt al-Banaat Khaalid wrote about the benefits of female genital mutilation (FGM) in an article - sometimes also called a study, dated to 2003 - titled "Khitaan al-Banaat Ru’yah Sihhiyyah".…
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Is Mungiki one of the world's most dangerous gangs?

This website claims that the slums of Nairobi is the most inhospitable place in the world, because of the Mungiki: Operating in the slums of Nairobi this extremely violent gang syndicate stands at about 100,000 members strong. In the past its…
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Does female genital mutilation reduce the risk of a woman's partner getting HPV?

If you love your husband Get yourself circumcised Because the germs under your prepuce Can reach his mouth when he pleasures your clitoris And cause him oral cancer ... The culprit is Human Papilloma Virus Found in the prepuces of the…
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Does Female Circumcision reduce urinary tract infections?

There is a passage which is frequented used to defend Female Circumcision. It is attributed to "female gynaecologist Sitt al-Banaat Khaalid" from an article entitled "Khitaan al-Banaat Ru’yah Sihhiyyah (Female circumcision from a health point of…
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