Western horror at female circumcision but not male circumcision reflects sexual-pleasure ideology

Evidence

High value is clearly given to the integrity of the body—which explains in part the particular horror in Euro-America at the widespread custom of female genital mutilation in some African regions. I say “in part” because there is no comparable sense of horror at the custom of male genital mutilation. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 718

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ article’s theme of Western moral-panic selectivity based on ideology rather than harm.