I can pinpoint the exact moment I lost support for John Major, for example – it was the moment when, every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was his engorged penis repeatedly penetrating Edwina Currie's moistened labia.
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The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 repealed and replaced the 1985 act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland making it an offence if a person excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any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.
The labia are pulled back and some or all of the clitoris is cut away; sometimes the labia are severed or sewn tight.
The practice which ranges from a symbolic nick, to the removal of all or part of a girl's clitoris, to infibulation (sewing up the labia)—has declined in many places.
Excision of the clitoris and labia minora are the commonest forms; infibulation the stitching of the vaginal opening except for a small hole for menstrual blood is the most extreme version.
Female genital mutilation, to give it its proper name, ranges from a straightforward nick to the complete excision of the clitoris and labia with the remaining genitals sewn up, leaving only a small opening.
She just explains that the procedure which ranges from a symbolic nick, to the removal of all or part of a girl's clitoris, to infibulation (sewing up the labia)—is not in the Bible, nor the Koran; nor do culture or law require it.
It is unlikely that any of London's hallowed art institutions have ever had so many depictions of labia on such proud display.Schiele's drawings are certainly carnal.
Unless the pace picks up, the number of victims will grow from 3.6m a year now to 4.1m in 2035.At its worst, FGM involves cutting off the clitoris and labia and stitching the vagina almost closed.
