Many of them seem borrowed from America and European life and the attitudes she professed even more so. Pets for example. Giving camels or money to the family of a bride is a traditional practice in Somaliaand has nothing to do with buying or selling. Dirie is reading western feelings into Somali culture As a child we were told that circumcision would ensure virginity and that no man would marry you if you were uncircumcised. No one ever said it was done to give men more sexual pleasure.
Men play no part in the practise.
Some agree with it some do not - my father was furious when he discovered it had been done to us. The practice is carried out by female members of the Midgaan clan, a low castle clan who are butchers, shoe makers and do other lowly jobs. They are paid for their work but not well.