<<opposition to this practice for the simple reason that it is performed outside the realm of modern medical facilities and not for anything else. >

Hinder:

By the above statement, it is painfully obvious that you have completely missed the point of  this debate.  Female circumcision is opposed simply because it involves "mutilating" a "vital" part of the female anatomy.  I will leave you to figure out what this "vital" part of the anatomy is?

I would like to emphatically state that comparing male circumcision to female circumcision is like comparing apples and oranges.  Male circumcision involves removing a useless piece of foreskin from the penis.

Female circumcision, on the other hand, is performed to humble, subjugate and dominate a woman by removing her ability to derive sexual pleaure where it counts the most.   This is akin to having someone lose one of their basic senses. (Touch, smell etc)

We simply have no place for such practices in today's world.

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