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  • Even if we were to consider tolerating it in its most limited form, how could we tell that parents who want to ensure that their daughter will be a virgin on her wedding night will not have her (legally) nicked and then a few months later (illegally) infibulated?

    ProWomanProLife » Thanks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali! 2010

  • The table shows that 37 percent of those cut before the age of one had been infibulated, while 49 percent of those circumcised after the age of four were infibulated.

    Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • It should be noted that the total number of respondents infibulated was 57.

    Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • (Martial, vii, 3.4) "a slave girt about the loins with a pouch of black leather stands by you whenever you are washed all over with warn water," here, the mistress is taking no chances, her rights are as carefully guarded as though the slave were infibulated in place of having his generous virility concealed within a leather pouch.

    Satyricon 2007

  • You will sit in your small word and whine about those awful white women who do not understand their own racism and white middle class and all that same old crap while women in Africa are infibulated and have their clits cut off and then are gang raped by the other tribe and then the UN peacekeepers .

    Bikinis and Burkas 2006

  • You will sit in your small word and whine about those awful white women who do not understand their own racism and white middle class and all that same old crap while women in Africa are infibulated and have their clits cut off and then are gang raped by the other tribe and then the UN peacekeepers .

    Bikinis and Burkas 2006

  • You will sit in your small word and whine about those awful white women who do not understand their own racism and white middle class and all that same old crap while women in Africa are infibulated and have their clits cut off and then are gang raped by the other tribe and then the UN peacekeepers .

    Bikinis and Burkas 2006

  • In women who are infibulated, obstruction of the urethra and vagina by scar tissue may result in urine retention and urethral and bladder stones, irregular or prolonged menstrual flow, chronic urinary tract infections, and chronic pelvic inflammatory infection, which often leads to scarring of the fallopian tubes and infertility.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • But many women who have been circumcised, especially those who have been infibulated, find sex difficult.

    Chapter 35 1997

  • ¨ If a woman lives far from emergency services, having a baby at home may be dangerous - especially if she has been infibulated.

    Chapter 35 1997

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