Reply #36: I think it's a lack of knowledge about anatomy

[ismnotwasm]

The clitoris is not in any way analogous to the foreskin of the penis, but I've never seen a FGM thread yet where someone seems to think that it is. Nor is the practice of FGM analogous to male circumcision for that matter. It might seem so if one doesn't understand the difference between female and male genitalia or bother to learn that difference.

I'm thinking of the Labor and delivery nurses who watch young mothers rip apart and bleed, or have chronic infections revolving around childbirth if not the practice itself or any practitioner that deal with fistulas and abscesses and prolapses from FGM-- all horror stories, stories that are happening as I type this.