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What do you mean by optional? Does that mean everyone has it or everyone doesn't?
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Hardly anyone in Britain is circumcised. Mainly the Muslim and Jewish communities practice circumcision. Otherwise, probably nearly all men here aren't circumcised. As for female circumcision, it's outlawed here. I think female circumcision is a crime against humanity. During sex, a woman with a mutilated clitoris will actually experience great pain. Basically, the tribes that practice female circumcision usually care about 'honour' and things like that, so they mutilate young women's clitorises so that they aren't promiscuous and don't bring 'shame' to their family and tribe. One tribeswoman on a BBC documentary said that women's vaginas should only be used to have children and only by one man. I heard that in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, women's clitorises are burnt with very hot rocks, and remember-they don't have any anaesthetic.