Male Genital Mutilation in South Africa
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From South Africa’s Transkei region comes the story of a surgeon who evidently couldn’t distinguish between circumcision and partial phallectomy.
Their condition was terrible. With two of them, their glans penis had been removed by the traditional surgeon, he said.
When police and department officials arrived to fetch the boys, they were threatened by the nurses who care for newly-circumcised initiates.
