ircumcision. One can clearly understand the health risk that accompanies this practice, the main argument for its discontinuance.
             Thus, one is faced with the question of why this procedure continues to occur. Unfortunately, there is not one simple answer. FC/FGM is a practice of culture, not religion. It is a rite, engrained in the cultural ideology of those who practice it. There are many justifications for the practice identified by its followers. This reasoning will be identified and explained in the following paragraphs.
             First, an examination of the history context of the practice is helpful. Although no one truly knows the origin of the practice, it is said to have started in ancient Egypt. Some contend the practice began to protect women against rape. Others speculate that in ancient Egypt circumcision was related to the Pharaonic belief in the bisexuality of the gods; humans were thought to reflect this in their anatomies, with the feminine "soul" of the man being situated in the prepuce and the masculine "soul" of th
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