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How many thoughtful persons nowadays need to be convinced that genocide is monstrous, that clitoridectomy is horrible, or that Prohibition (like its offspring, the War on Drugs) was absurd. Although Laqueur quotes this document twice, it makes no sense because he has not discussed the vast nineteenth century literature on the value of circumcision as a disincentive to masturbation in boys, and of clitoridectomy to treat the problem in girls. In the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, for example, Alice Walker's bold challenge to the tribal practice of clitoridectomy, or FGM (female genital mutilation), can be considered a trickster stance. |
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