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Sun Jul-22-07 04:38 PM
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What's the difference between designer vaginas and female genital mutilation?

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Both are mutilations of women's bodies so that the conform to the social norms about sexuality. In one case, it's to repress sexuality, and in the other, it's to convince women that they'd have more and better sex if they mutilate themselves.

I suspect that many people in the west feel superior to countries which perform female circumcision (which is, indeed, and awful thing). But, how could we be culturally superior if our culture is trying to convince women that they need to have surgery to fix their vaginas?

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