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Female genital cutting (FGC) shares a strikingly similar history to [[circumcision|male circumcision]] in Western medicine, being offered as a way to curb sexual activity, which was thought to cause disease.<ref>[[John Harvey Kellogg|Kellogg, John Harvey]]</ref><ref> {{REFjournal |first= Robert Tuttle |last=Morris, M.D. |title=Is evolution trying to do away with the clitoris? |journal=American Association of OB/GYNs Vol. |volume=5, |year=1892, pp. |pages=288-302.}}</ref><ref> {{REFjournal |first=T. Scott |last=McFarland, M.D. |title=Circumcision of Girls. |journal=Journal of Orificial Surgery. Vol. |volume=7,July |date=1898,pp.-07 |pages=31-33.}}</ref><ref> {{REFjournal |first=Benjamin E. |last=Dawson, A.M., M.D. |title=Circumcision in the Female: Its Necessity and How to Perform it. |journal=American Journal of Clinical Medicine. Vol. |volume=22, No. |issue=6, June |date=1915, pp.-06 |pages=520-525. }}</ref><ref> {{REFjournal |first=Belle C. |last=Eskridge M.D. |title=Why not circumcise the girl as well as the boy? |journal=Texas State Journal of Medicine Vol. |volume=14, May |date=1918.-05}}</ref><ref> Mc Donald, {{REFjournal |last=McDonald |first=C.F., M.D. |title=Circumcision of the female. |journal=General Practitioner Vol. |volume=18 No3, Sept |issue=3 |date=1958, pp.-09 |pages=98-99.}}</ref><ref> {{REFjournal |first=W.G. |last=Rathmann M.D. |title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a new Technique. |journal=General practitioner Vol. |volume=20, No. |issue=3, Sept |date=1959, pp.-09 |pages=115-120.}}</ref> In the US, female genital cutting was covered by Blue Shield until 1977. Today all forms of FGM are considered female genital mutilation (FGM), which are banned in all western countries.