| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Female genital mutilation 'offered by UK medics' | |
| Posted by: | Claudia Jachtmann | |
| Date/Time: | 22/04/12 15:55:00 |
| description of FMG ahead, bit graphic but that is the nature of this practise from the NY Times 1996 : genital mutilation has been inflicted on 80 to 100 million girls and young woman. in countries where it is practised, mostly African, about 2 million youngsters a year can expect the knife, or the razor or a glass shard - to cut their clitoris or remove it altogether, and to have part or all of the labia sewn together with catgut ot thorns. often the oepration is prettified as 'circumcision'. the African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plainly : 'in a man it would range from amputatin of msot of the penis ot remaoval of all of the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin' |