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Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent harmful effect on an individual's quality of life. [ 1 ] In the modern era , the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] referring to alterations that render something inferior, dysfunctional, imperfect, or ugly.
Circumcision – the partial or full removal of the foreskin, sometimes also the frenulum; Foreskin restoration – techniques for attempting the restoration of the foreskin; Emasculation – complete removal of the male genitalia (orchiectomy plus penectomy) Genital frenectomy [6] Meatotomy – splitting of the underside of the glans penis
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting (FGC), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), refers to "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other surgery of the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons."
Merriam-Webster defines "mutilate" as "to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect", but gives a relatively mild example: "the child mutilated the book with his scissors". [4] Animal rights advocates often pejoratively refer to these procedures as mutilations.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision [a]) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their ...
"The types of mutilation are varied and creative, and range from removing the hair to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving.” She added that “actual physical violence and ...
A map of all countries who have banned intersex infant surgery according to equaldex.com as of February 1st 2025. Intersex medical interventions (IMI), sometimes known as intersex genital mutilations (IGM), [1] are surgical, hormonal and other medical interventions performed to modify atypical or ambiguous genitalia and other sex characteristics, primarily for the purposes of making a person's ...
Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision [1] and unexplained livestock death, [2] or animal mutilation) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under supposedly unusual, usually bloodless circumstances. This phenomenon has been observed among wild animals as well.