Globally, at least 2 million girls a year are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM), approximately 6,000 per day. ... Female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, is an extreme example of efforts common to societies around the world to suppress women's sexuality, ensure their subjugation, and control their reproductive functions. Female genital mutilation is the collective name given to several different practices that involve the cutting of female genitals. ... In the communities where FGM takes place, it is referred to as "female circumcision." ... The degree of ...

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There are many characteristics that both males and females value in a potential mate. ... Men put greater emphasis on attractiveness as female beauty relates to a woman's reproductive ability. ... Since women have to make a greater obligatory investment in offspring though gestation and infant care, they have more of a choice about whom they are going to mate. ... Sexual dimorphism is the disparity between the size of the male and female. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se, and thereby as degrading and disempowering, we lose touch with an image on ...

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These factors include unprotected sex, sexual contact with multiple partners, a history of STIs, abusing alcohol or using recreational drugs, injecting drugs and being an adolescent female. Another way to transmit an STI is mother to infant at birth or during breast feeding (Mayo, "Risk"). ... These unstable cells make the adolescent female cervix more vulnerable to certain sexually transmitted organisms" (Mayo, "Risk"). ... HPV can be prevented; there is a vaccine that both males and females can receive. It has been more recommended for females to get the vaccine beca...

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