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Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of)
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> I'll also add that by female mutilations, people usually mean foot-binding,
> among other things, but the primary item is the clitorectomy, the removal
> of a girl's clitoris to greatly reduce her future pleasure in sex (don't
> want them to ahve any fun. now do we ?). This is still practiced in many
> African and Near Eastern cultures and is probably the most pervasive type
> of female mutilation still extant.
> 
> jcpatilla
> 

Does anyone know what reasons (excuses) such societies state for their
practice of clitorectomy?  I doubt that they actually claim that they do
it in order to reduce the girl's future pleasure.  In the U.S., large
numbers of unnecessary hysterectomies have been performed under the name
of "health".  I'm always interested in how people justify their behavior.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak