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Among all ever sexually active single men, 33% reported that they were aged 14 or younger at first sexual intercourse, and among all ever sexually active women, 20% did so (Kane et al., 1993)[1]. The majority of operations encountered in a 2001 report[2]consisted of clitoridectomy and excision of the labia minora (WHO classification type II) and were performed between the ages of 4 and 7 years. That is,
“The mean reported age at circumcision was 6.1 years with the median being 6 years. About 79% of circumcised women reported having been circumcised between 4 and 7 years of age, 7% were circumcised earlier and 15% later. The maximum age at circumcision was 16”.
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Sexual Mutilations. Case studies presented at the
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Hernlund, Y. (2000) Cutting Without Ritual and Ritual Without Cutting:
Female ‘Circumcision’ and the Ritualisation of Initiation in
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[1] Kane, Th. T., De Buysscher, R., Taylor-Thomas, T., Smith, T. & Jeng, M. (1993) Sexual Activity, Family Life Education, and Contraceptive Practice Among Young Adults in Banjul, The Gambia, Stud Fam Plann 24,1:50-61
[2]Morison, Linda;
Caroline Scherf, Gloria Ekpo, Katie Paine, Beryl West, Rosalind Coleman, Gijs
Walraven (2001) The long-term reproductive health consequences of female
genital cutting in rural