[muggs]

These men are really stupid. Don't they realize that if they let the women experience sexual pleasure, that they will get more pleasure in return.

You sum up my thoughts perfectly.

[Melinator]

It's the women (older ones), not the men who most tenaciously support and almost exclusively practice the continued mutilation of the little girls. Men are not allowed at the "ceremonies". Given that they mostly live in poverty and ignorance stricken cultures, the old women use whatever cutting tools they may have at hand, including broken glass, rusty razors and knives. The gaping, profusely bleeding wound is then sewed up with whatever is handy - ranging from thread to barbed thorns, with reeds inserted where the opening to the vagina and urethra used to be. No anaesthetic is used. No aseptic technique is practiced. The children frequently die from secondary infections such as tetanus as a result.