If parents did such things to their children in the US, they would be put behind bars, Thank God!
I think Iman, David Bowie's wife, is from Somalia and wrote about the horrors of the genital mutilation from which she suffered. Of course, she eventually had enough money to have corrective surgery, but it is a cause that she is trying to bring to more people's awareness.
That stuff just turns my stomach.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled jocularity.