It is private. It is a secret. By its very nature it is always covered up from the outside world.
No one sees it but the person who does it, the woman who is the victim, the victim’s mother and the man the victim is married to.
Things are different in parts of Africa where female genital mutilation (FGM) is public, is a ritual, and a crowd gathers to watch it being done and listen to the screams of the victims.
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Suffering: A terrified child undergoes female genital mutilation in Egypt, in a ritual now happening in the UK
No anaesthetic is given and the tool used to cut off the labia and the clitoris is rarely sterile but likely to be a piece of broken glass, a kitchen knife or a razor blade.
How awful it is that these things are always done to women – the foot-binding, the neck-lengthening and the genital cutting.
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