![Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins.](/assets/img/quote-photos/were-we-to-still-be-circumcising-the-hood-of-the-female-clitoris-we-would-not-ha.jpg)
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