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Excision/female genital mutilation is still omnipresent, in urban as well as rural areas, as a regulator mechanism of female sexuality. It includes several types of cutting the female genitalia. A small sub-group of the population submit girls to the ‘sunna-circumcision’, which involves only the removal of the skin covering the clitoris. The clitoridectomy, called ‘excision’, is a more common practice, which consists of cutting parts or the entire clitoris along with an incision in the small lips (labia minora) of the female genitalia.[106] These centuries old practices are performed by traditional or modern practitioners, usually in homes, on girls in a wide range of age cohorts. In cities, the age at excision has dropped drastically from adolescence to early childhood, being performed on infants and newborn babies. The rites and rhythms, which were an important part of these practices, are almost non-existent today because of their irrelevance due to the younger age