Genital mutilation of young girls. But it's a religious thing!

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Most female “circumcisions” involve cutting off a large part of the clitoris.

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Many also involve removing a chunk of the labia and sewing everything up so there’s barely room for urine to drip out.

The WHO seems to disagree with you, unless if by “many” you mean approximately one tenth of the victims. Cite.

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The parts of the world where male circumcision arose are dusty places, where intact men sometimes develop the same problem.

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The US Army did a lot of emergency, medically necessary, circumcisions during the Iraq war.

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Given the prevalence of male circumcision among American and Muslim men, I find this hard to believe.

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If you don’t have modern medicine, it’s a lot safer to circumcise infants and boys than to do it to adult men, especially adult men who have already developed dangerous inflammation.

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That’s almost certainly the historical reason the custom of male circumcision arose.

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Female cutting, in contrast, is all about controlling female sexuality.

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EDIT: Don’t bother. I have one:

Reasons for Supporting FGM Vary

Reasons for supporting FGM include the beliefs that it is a “good tradition”, a religious requirement(s), or a necessary rite of passage to womanhood; that it ensures cleanliness or better marriage prospects, prevents promiscuity and excessive clitoral growth, preserves virginity, enhances male sexuality, and facilitates childbirth by widening the birth canal.

Until the 1950s, FGM was performed in England and the United States as a common “treatment” for lesbianism, masturbation, hysteria, epilepsy, and other so-called “female deviances”.41
Religious affiliation can affect approval levels: A study in Kenya and Sierra Leone revealed that most Protestants opposed FGM while a majority of Catholics and Muslims supported its continuation.42
There is a direct correlation between a woman’s attitude towards FGM and her place of residence, educational background, and work status. DHS data indicate that urban women are less likely than their rural counterparts to support FGM. Employed women are also less likely to support it. Women with little or no education are more likely to support the practice than those with a secondary or higher education.44 Data from the 1989 Sudanese survey (of women 15- to 49-years-old) show that 80 percent of women with no education or only primary education support FGM, compared to only 55 percent of those with senior secondary or higher schooling.45 A woman’s age does not seem to influence support.
Most women who have had the FGM procedure are strongly in favor of FGM for their daughters.46 In Egypt, 50 percent of the women surveyed reported that they had at least one daughter who had gone through the procedure, while 38 percent intended to do so in the future. In addition, most of these women want their daughters to undergo the same type of procedure they had.49
Most women who favor ending the practice also feel they do not have enough information to convince men of the harmful effects of FGM.50 Men help continue the practice by refusing to marry women who have not had FGM or by allowing or paying for their daughters’ procedures. DHS data indicate that, in general, women believe that their husbands’ attitudes toward FGM are similar to their own.51 However, recent studies in Eritrea and Sudan found that men may actually be less supportive and more indifferent than women toward this practice.52

Reasons for Supporting FGM in Egypt, Mali, Central African Republic, and Eritrea

Today, the most common reason evoked for supporting FGM is the belief that the practice is a “good tradition”.47 Other reasons include religious requirement(s); rite of passage to womanhood; cleanliness; prevention of promiscuity among girls; preservation of virginity; better marriage prospects; enhancement of male sexuality; prevention of excessive clitoral growth; and facilitation of childbirth by widening the birth canal.48

http://www.path.org/files/FGM-The-Facts.htm

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It increases the risk of infection and death.

Certainly, if it’s done under non-sterile conditions with primitive tools and materials. However, comparing the risk of infection after massive female genital cutting in e.g. rural Somalia with a glass shard and using thorns to sew up the vagina afterwards, with male genital cutting done in a Western hospital under sterile conditions and with the access to modern antibiotics and then ascribing the difference to the sex of the child who is mutilated is pretty stupid.