(October 8, 2016 at 3:19 pm)Aroura Wrote:(October 8, 2016 at 3:01 pm)Whateverist Wrote: F-a-l-s-e e-q-u-i-v-a-l-e-n-c-e.
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.."
The most common form of fmg is to remove the labia, not the whole clitoris.
Since all zygotes are female, a penis is literally an extended female sexual organ. The labia is much like the part that turns into the foreskin on a male.
And so.....it's really nearly exactly the same thing. It's even done originally for the same reasons, to make sex and maturation less appealing.
I had to do some extra reading just so I don't get the terms wrong. So clitoris is actually more than just the visible pea-size part as the larger portion of it is hidden behind the vulva. Sort of like how the tip of the iceberg is visible, but the larger portion is concealed by the water.
The visible part of the clitoris then is the clitoral glans. And so the mildest form of FGM (which is still barbaric nevertheless) is the removal of just the glans part.