Jessica Wynn

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8,464 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 20 Sep

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The ordeal is often tied to learning cultural traditions.

They're expected to prove their toughness and they're formally welcomed into adulthood.

It's about courage, masculinity, and just becoming an adult, but

Infections, injuries, and even deaths are documented in some of these ceremonies.

No, not in these communities.

It's a cultural rite of passage that usually happens, you know, at twelve or thirteen.

So they're they're older.

They are fully aware of what's happening.

And the point here isn't that boys and girls experience the same thing because they don't.

FGM causes dramatically greater lifelong harm.

The point is that these societies often see physical suffering as the gateway to adulthood for both sexes.

Now, this doesn't justify FGM or circumcision, but it changes the story to something more complicated than just men oppressing women, you know.

Surprisingly, no.

It's mostly women.

Huh.

So the decision is overwhelmingly made by women, mothers, grandmothers, aunts.

The older women in a girl's life are often the ones who insist it happens.

The men pretty much stay silent and the women often perform it as well.

Yeah.

I mean that's an important distinction.

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