Irish girls opinion on circumcision

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Search Search. Menu Sections. Kathy Armstrong Twitter Email. Female circumcision "has been described in a horrible way" and should be considered in certain circumstances, a member of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland has said. D r Ali Selim called female circumcision "an inherited practice" and said parents should be allowed to have it carried out on their daughter if a doctor says it's necessary. He also said that you "cannot control people" and people will travel overseas for the procedure.

Circumcision is a procedure in which a portion of the foreskin is removed. The foreskin is normally stuck to the glans of the penis in early childhood. As the child develops the foreskin begins to separate from the glans. By early teens it is usually possible to retract or pull back the foreskin over the glans. If the foreskin cannot be pulled back by the age of 16 years then it is probably too tight.

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