For these reasons, Western society quickly condemns such rituals. Unfortunately the issue is not so simple. The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds. Wounds that never heal. Genital mutilation affects more than 2 million girl child victims and more than 13.5 million boy child victims annually throughout the world.
Female babies are more fortunate.
Their bodies are less suitable for mutilation and they are able to pass through babyhood without genital wounding. Unhappily this does not mean they will escape later on. The personal experiences of a circumcised woman, Susan Mullen. Female Circumcision - An angry commentary. No one should live in fear of having parts of her genitals sliced off against her will.