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FEMALE CIRCUMCISION Male circumcision has been done around the world since the era of B.C. It was done solely as a sign of the covenant man made with God. Today’s society has added more reasons such as appearance of the penis, culture, and hygiene reasons. For the past 2,000 years females have had this procedure done to them as well. Female circumcision however is done in different procedures and has many ‘purposes’ as to why this practice takes place. Female circumcision, commonly known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is practiced in over 30 countries in the world. The procedure first appeared in the countries of Africa. Among the Samburu tribe of Kenya, girls are generally circumcised at the age of 14 or 15, usually just before they get married. It is estimated that 90% or more of the girls in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and North Sudan have been mutilated. There are over 30 million women living in Nigeria that have been mutilated and 24 million in Ethiopia. The estimating of women who have gone through FGM has totaled up to about