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Originally Posted by SlackerDad  Is there some kind of cultural, geographic, or religious subgroup that does this? What I'm getting at is, what leads the 30% to circ girls? Was it something that used to be done by a majority and is fading out? This just seems like a practise that, from everything I understand about sociology and social psychology, would not be stable at 30% of the population unless it was the majority of a subgroup (like a religious sect or a regional thing).
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According to this article I found, the rates are closer to the high 90's, and it is becoming increasingly medicalised, as in performed in hospitals as part of the birth package.
I have also read that in many cases the cutting is so minor that the woman, or even a doctor, would not be able to even tell that something had been done.
Americans tend to want to believe that
all FGC is the really horrific type that removes everything and sews the girl up to a pinhole opening. This is actually the minority case, and there are actually types that are a good deal less severe than what is done to boys in this culture.
Americans tend to like to view things in black and white, and this sort of blurring of the lines is not particularly welcome in American discourse on this subject.
