These practices have been going on for centuries and are primarily inflicted upon young girls and women. For those unfamiliar with these terms and practices, we'll be shedding light on what they ...

While FGC is common in Africa, the practice is illegal in many Western countries. Flickr/tlupic Female genital cutting (FGC) – also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision – is ...

The practice of FGM is painful, harmful and incredibly dangerous in any form, but the most severe and debilitating type – infibulation – is so shocking, it's difficult to even read about. I travelled ...

The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM). This is an effort to bring medical standardization to an extremely ...

THIS work is the first volume of a series which the author is undertaking in connexion with some of the more obscure customs of antiquity and the Middle Ages related to the sexual life of man. The ...