Genital Mutilation is an act of sexual sadism, torture, and maiming. Genital Mutilation is not a religion, a belief, a commandment, or a culture. Genital Mutilation is an painful act of sexual sadism, torture, voyeurism, and violence that permanently maims the sexual organs and sexual response. Genital Mutilation is disrespectful of the body and its sexual tissue. Genital Mutilation is physically and mentally unhealthy and unnatural.
Denial prevents people from understanding that mutilation is a wrongful act.
No respectable caring person would cause pain, harm, or disrespect a child. A person who comes to acknowledge, address, and redresss wrongdoing is noble. A cut is not symbolic. A cut is real. Symbolism lies deep in the dungeons of the human psyche.