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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So laws matter.

But if the social incentives stay the same, people just take the practice underground.

And the communities that have made the biggest progress change the incentives, not just the laws.

And that's a much more challenging project.

But it's the one that actually delivers change, right?

And it requires working with women, not just talking about them.

Yeah.

I mean think of FGM and child marriage as like two gears in the same machine.

One prepares the girl, the other completes the transaction.

To some degree in some societies, but the degree of harm is categorically different.

So FGM, particularly types two and three, they involve the removal of functional pleasure producing tissue in ways that cause lifelong pain.

permanently impair sexual function and create serious complications in childbirth and just beyond.

The medical evidence on male circumcision, that's genuinely mixed.

There are some studies suggesting marginal protective effects against certain infections in certain contexts.

I personally think that's all very questionable.

But in twenty twenty six in a western society the

Those reasons they become less and less convincing.

The long term harm profile for most men who undergo routine circumcision, it's considerably less severe than FGM though, but it's not nothing.

I think so, and a big similarity between what girls and boys go through is consent or lack of consent.

So neither the infant boy nor the infant girl asked for this.

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