In Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali, for example, more than 80% of women have undergone FGM.

Typically, the procedure is carried out by a Daya (an elderly female birth attendant) when a baby girl is a few days old, but it can be done at any time during childhood, adolescence, before marriage or during a first pregnancy.

The scope of the operation – which is often carried out in non-sterile conditions using household implements – can vary considerably from removing the clitoris to cutting away all of the woman's external genitalia before stitching the wound back together leaving only a tiny hole for menstruation and urination."

yes it still exists.

I think this practise is disgusting! but then these men rule with thier penises not thier brains!

It's the women doing the cutting. Don't place the full blame on just the men, its the entire culture that needs to change.

Yes, I'm afraid Oortcloud is right, while this is a horrible practice done just for pleasuring a man it is women who carry out this practice from centuries of this being embedded into their minds. I could see many of these women having a problem with changing it now and even see it as a threat to their culture.

I say fight fire with fire, tell them that studies show that of the women who have this done 90 percent or something will be less likely to produce a male....that will get them thinking real fast.