There are millions of females going through terrible pain and torture as small children by being genitally mutilated. They are taken to a village woman who, with a hot knife, burns the clitoris (to insure they will not become promiscuous), and also burns their labia to fuse the skin together, leaving an opening only large enough for urine and blood to flow from. On their wedding night the husband is given a ceremonial knife to reopen the scar for sexual intercourse.