Court case on forced circumcision

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While not precisely congruent, I think a case can be made for strong similarities between male and female circumsicion. The practices are both so ancient, so deeply entrenched in culture, that you can find a whole host of rationalizations for them, mutating with time and population groups. These rationalizations and rationales have, over the millenium, become "fact."

Here is someone's interesting comparison between male and female genital cutting. Not sure I buy totally into all the comparisons, but it made for interesting reading:

http://www.fgmnetwork.org/intro/mgmfgm.php