Jessica Wynn

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Like we mentioned before, the population growth is happening faster than attitudes are changing.

So researchers estimate that the number of girls who are expected to undergo FGM each year will rise to about 4.6 million by 2030, even though there's efforts to eliminate it.

And not because support for FGM is growing.

But because there are simply more girls being born in the regions where the practice is most common.

That's why changing minds matters, but you know, it just isn't enough on its own.

It isn't one thing that makes it keep going.

It's like

Five or six things stacked on top of each other.

You know, it's marriage, it's about sexuality, family honor.

In some places it's tied to inheritance rights because being cut is a prerequisite for a girl's right to inherit property.

You know it's an economic livelihood for a lot of practitioners who are often women who depend on it for income, but underneath all of it is the same fear that a girl who isn't cut may be considered unmarryable, ostracized or

This is actually crucial.

So in many of the communities where FGM is most prevalent,

Boys are also undergoing severe initiation rights involving their own bodies, often around the same ages.

Aaron Powell

It depends.

There's so many different things and in some communities, you know

Boys are taken away from their families for days or weeks as part of a broader initiation right.

And the circumcision is only one piece of it.

So they undergo circumcision, usually without anesthesia, sometimes in groups, and they're expected to endure the pain without showing fear, you know, to be a man.

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