FGM removes sexual pleasure. That's it's purpose. It is neutering women; keeping them faithful, compliant and non-sexual
Not all forms of it do. Most of them leave the majority of the internal clitoris intact. It's only the extreme forms (which are mainly done by fundamentalist Muslims).
If you look at the East African tribes who do it, they have an extremely open and accepting attitude towards sexuality and even a socially accepted form of pre-marital sex which is a type of dry humping.
The neutering thing is a bit of a western myth from people who don't understand it very well. In fact, it's main purpose is to remove parts of the body which their traditions tell them will lead to male characteristics developing.
Which just shows why western women screaming and shouting about something they don't really understand is counterproductive. In fact, when they've sent people in who actually understand and respect their cultures and traditions, they've had more success at stopping it. Because they can actually go and show them some science and tell them about the endocrine system and how it affects male and female characteristics and that the parts removed in FGM have no bearing on this.
Cultural relativism also means that we can avoid the hard conversations about what happens to children. Which is what we are talking about here
Nope, I have been talking about adults, you (and certain) just keep bringing it back to children because you seem to be unable to deal with the fact that a lot of grown women not only want to do it, but have resisted attempts to stop it, sometimes violently.
You and certain don't seem to compute the difference between children having something done against their will and adults having it done.
Thank you though, because you are both perfect examples of the kind of feminist people on the ground say is damaging attempts to stop it. You see yourselves as crusading white knights helping save the poor little ignorant women being oppressed by men into having FGM.
The thing is; you're actually the ignorant ones. I can have a fairly good guess what a lot of those women would say to you, something along the lines of: 'You've invaded our country, taken our land, impoverished us, tried to destroy our culture and now you're saying something we have done for a thousand years makes us barbaric savages? Well fuck you and your cultural imperialism. Go back to the West where you cut your chests open and stick bags of carcinogenic plastic in them, or break your noses on purpose so you can make them look better; or stick pins into your body for vanity, and leave our vaginas alone'.
I don't understand why you can't understand that your approach has been tried for 150 years plus and it DOES NOT WORK. FGM is still happening. Believe it or not African people have minds of their own and can think for themselves and aren't just sitting waiting in ignorance for white people to tell them what to do.
The methods that have worked best to stop it have been culturally sensitive ones which were respectful of that culture whilst still encouraging them to stop. And yes there are some people who do argue that legalisation should take place because it will prevent infection and complications and reduce the amount of children it's done to. Including one of Kenya's top female doctors:
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nation.co.ke/news/Legalise-female-circumcision--says-doctor-in-court/1056-4267584-view-asAMP-v12jsnz/index.html
But I get it. You think African women are just waiting for westerners to come and save them and teach them right from wrong. Because you're raaaaaacists.