Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of practice, but so far progress has been slow. The economist Eliana La Ferrara is ...

She called it her “deepest, darkest secret,” one she had never even shared with her husband. When Saffiatu Sillah was growing up in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, a ritual circumcision left ...

On the International Day for Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, VICE News reports on a little-known surgery that restores sexual function to the clitoris for women who had their genitals ...

A recent story in The New York Times looked at the rise of American girls who are being sent abroad to undergo female circumcision, which has been banned in the United States since 1996. As Julie ...

An interesting issue of the journal Global Discourse, on Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?, edited by Ingvild Bergom Lunde and Matthew Thomas Johnson; here's the Introduction, ...

WOMEN who are “circumcised” tend to lose their virginity younger, are more likely to initiate sex and suffer more health problems, a Nigerian study has shown. So far from reducing sexual activity and ...