Even governments are implicit in these practices. Medicine, education, and religious institutions all fail to educate people about genital cutting practices. Not that the individuals within these fields are intending to do harm; they likely do not understand the topic well themselves.
Non-therapeutic genital cutting is performed on tens of thousands of children every day. Over 1 in 8 individuals in the world are living with mutilated genitalia, however, the majority believe they are better for it due to indoctrination and it occurred before they were old enough to develop a frame of reference.
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