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[WHO] FGM is often motivated by beliefs about what is considered proper sexual behaviour, linking procedures to premarital virginity and marital fidelity. FGM is in many communities believed to reduce a woman's libido and therefore believed to help her resist "illicit" sexual acts. When a vaginal opening is covered or narrowed (type 3 above), the fear of the pain of opening it, and the fear that this will be found out, is expected to further discourage "illicit" sexual intercourse among women with this type of FGM.
[We] It is necessary to remember that the original motivation behind medical circumcision in the United States was to prevent and cure [[masturbation]]. Male infibulation (sewing the foreskin with a silver thread) was also done at the time to prevent erections. Doctors today deny that there is any sexual harm, but they were circumcised at birth themselves so they don't have a personal experience of intact sex.
[WHO] FGM is associated with cultural ideals of femininity and modesty, which include the notion that girls are “clean” and "beautiful" after removal of body parts that are considered "male" or "unclean".