Asking some awkward questions about FGM
Female genital mutilation is always an abhorrent obscenity. In its more invasive forms it carries significant implications for health and, most obviously sexual health. I have no quibble with the Home...
View ArticleFGM prosecutions and the question nobody dares to ask
The acquittal of Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena yesterday means that more than 20 years after specific legislation was passed, there remains not one single British conviction for inflicting female genital...
View ArticleBiopower: Joining the dots from sexual violence to genital mutilation
My current dead-tree companion is Amalendu Misra’s new book The Landscape of Silence: Sexual Violence Against Men in War. it is a fine, scholarly work that documents the gruesome extent of sexual...
View ArticleThe mists begin to clear on FGM statistics
Readers may recall that I have long been interested in trying to unpick the data on female genital mutilation in the UK. The general standard of debate on this topic is woefully uninformed by actual...
View ArticleUKIP are not the only ones peddling dangerous myths about FGM
It would be tempting to dismiss UKIP’s newly-announced manifesto policy on female genital mutilation as simply the latest ravings of a delusional binbag of wingnuts. Unfortunately, this delusional...
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The FGM Detectives: Channel 4’s documentary was horrifying for all the wrong...
One would fully expect that a Channel 4 documentary entitled ‘The FGM Detectives’ would be horrifying and shocking, and so it transpired. The horror and shock, however, were mostly not found in the...
View ArticleThe FGM Detectives and spurious comparisons: trampling over the victims of...
There’s something of a rule that has evolved over the years, in discussions and debates about female genital mutilation. Call it a matter of etiquette, if you like, or even a tactical ploy, but the...
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