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[[Image:FGC.jpeg|right|thumb|From Historical American Female Circumcision medical papers]]
Female circumcision, also known as "female genital cutting" ([[FGC]]) or "female genital mutilation" ([[FGM]]) is a blanket term that can refer to a wide array of genital cutting performed in girls and women, performed for social, cultural and/or religious reasons.
== History of female circumcision in the west ==
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
|date=2010-05-11
|accessdate=2011-09-27
}}</ref> The AAP had deviated from a much more forceful statement published in 1998, which unequivocally condemned [[FGC ]] in any form.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=MacReady
|first=Norra
|pages=15
|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61042-2/fulltext
|quote=...the AAP revised a much more forceful statement published in 1998, which unequivocally condemned [[FGC ]] in any form.
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== Variations of female genital cutting ==
[[FGC ]] consists of several distinct procedures. Their severity is often viewed as dependent on how much genital tissue is cut away. The WHO—which [[WHO]] — which uses the term Female Genital Mutilation ([[FGM]])—divides — divides the procedure into four major types<ref name = "WHO - Terminology"/> (see Diagram 1), although there is some debate as to whether all common forms of FGM fit into these four categories, as well as issues with the reliability of reported data.<ref name="Elmusharaf_2006">{{REFjournal
|last=Elmusharaf
|first=S.