Sentence examples for clitoris from inspiring English sources

FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.

The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 repealed and replaced the 1985 act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland making it an offence if a person excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.

There are four main methods of committing FGM, according to the World Health Organisation, and Abu-Dayyeh said the practice of removing a girl's clitoris and labia was probably the most common in Egypt.

In its mildest form, a girl has the skin covering her clitoris nicked or excised.

The neural pathways that connect a woman's clitoris, vulva and vagina to the spinal cord and from there to the brain are unique to every woman.

This means that women receive pleasure in different ways, despite what has been a long history of shame-inducing theories about what part of the vagina should deliver orgasm (the vulva, said Freud; the clitoris, said 1970s feminists).The fashion today is to shore up most theories of human behaviour with a bit of neuroscience, and Ms Wolf obliges.

She argues that "the motive for cutting off a girl's clitoris is to reduce her sexuality".

The labia are pulled back and some or all of the clitoris is cut away; sometimes the labia are severed or sewn tight.