A new paper in a highly regarded British Medical Journal publication has sparked outrage for attempting to launch a debate on the so-called “harms of the current global anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaign.”
It says coverage of the practice, where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, often relies on “titillating sensationalism,” and complains that this “leads to vilification of migrants, infantilisation of people and their cultures, and failure to recognise the agency of the women concerned and their communities.”
