I think it's a barbaric practise on either gender-more so on girls perhaps because of lasting effects and the basis of it-but totally not necessary most of the time
Anyone read or seen the media produced by Waris Dirie? I've read both her accounts of her life and seen the film-She escaped her home country and became an international supermodel and is now a pioneer to stop female circumcision.
Much as I respect her work, she put her little boy through circumcision which I cannot understand!