1. Female Genital Mutilation
It was practiced by many ancient cultures, including the Phoenicians, Hittites, and the ancient Egyptians, modern physicians in England also used it and the United Sates as recently as the 1940s and 1950s to "treat" hysteria, lesbianism, masturbation, and other so called female deviancies. ... It is also practiced on a smaller scale in parts of Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gambia, and Egypt, and may be occurring in other communities where information is incomplete. ...
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