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The former, also known as infibulation, involves the total removal of all external sex organs before the vagina is sewn up, leaving a small opening for the passing of menstrual blood, while the Sunna type is less extensive.— IRIN
Where there is essentially one form of male circumcision, there are at least three recognized female types: Sunna, clitoridectomy, and infibulation, the last being the most extreme.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Continence, celibacy, infibulation, and even castration were the conditions looked upon by many of these men as the only means of living a life on earth that would grant them an eternal life in the next.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
For such purposes as the foregoing infibulation offered a more humane method than castration.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Buffon and Brown mention infibulation in Abyssinia, the parts being separated by a bistoury at the time of marriage.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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