#67 — that photo brings me to tears.
It also reminds me that it is WOMEN who, by and large, perpetrate this horror on their own daughters.
Jesus God....
Having been through it themselves and KNOWING FULL WELL what they are inflicting on their daughters.
Sorry for the shocker; but I think people need to get the word out how horrible and primitive this thing is. In most areas, there is no anesthesia used. Everything is scraped out — the labia minora and clitoris — with crude knives, and then the outer labia are sewed together with only a small hole for urination and menstruation. The healing time takes weeks or months. Many die from infection, or are terribly injured again when they are handled brutally on their wedding night.