Through some ancient patriarchal filter, the entire vagina, vulva, clitoris and labia were removed, cut to the pubic bone and stitched in some cases leaving a tiny hole as big as a piece of straw, for all the urine and menstrual blood to escape from.

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FGM,"She loses only a little piece of the clitoris, just the part that protrudes. The girl does not miss it. She can still feel, after all." MGM, "It's only a little piece of skin. The baby does not feel any pain because his nervous system is not develope

The glans of the circumcised penis is less sensitive to fine touch than the glans of the uncircumcised penis. The transitional region from the external to the internal prepuce is the most sensitive region of the uncircumcised penis and more sensitive...

Balancing family and work is one reason why achieving tenure is so difficult for women. The average age of someone applying for tenure is 33, and the review process takes about five years from the day he or she is hired at the institution.

Evidence suggests more women are breast-feeding their children until they're toddlers and older -- and they're not just earth-mother stereotypes.

For years, the question of whether new parents would circumcise their baby boys was generally a nonissue. Whatever the tradition was in their families, especially whether the baby's father was circumcised, usually decided the matter.

Tests on the infant one day,one week,one month after the surgery indicated that the child's brain never returned to its baseline configuration.The evidence of this research indicates that the brain of the circumcised infant was permanently changed.

The Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military-themed park that would include Cobra Gunship rides and bars including a "1st Division Lounge."