Dear Carol, Thank you for your phone call today. Any wounding of the female genitalia or other sexual organs is classified, diagnosed, and reported according to the International Classification of Disease Terminology. If the perpetrators are licensed professionals, the perpetrators subject themselves to licensing and disciplinary issues as well as prosecution. So strong is the compulsion to sexually mutilate, we must institute zero tolerance legislation to eradicate the abuse. Abuse begets abuse.
Sexual mutilation begets sexual mutilation.
Education alone is insufficient to overcome the generations of compulsion. Swift and forceful action is needed to eradicate this barbarian human rights violation. An example of the compulsion to genitally mutilate is the infamous Love Surgeon James Burt, M.D. of Dayton, Ohio. The people of genital mutilating cultures are free to remain in their homeland where they can legally perpetuate the mutilation from generation to generation. In this country, we are culturally incensed at the abuse.