Genital piercings and genital tattooing may be performed for aesthetic reasons, but piercings have the benefit of increasing sexual pleasure for the pierced individual or their sex partners. Ĭontemporary, western women with clitoral hood piercing and genital tattooing (left) and Hanabira (right) This claim is currently very controversial with numerous research papers and fatawa (religious legal ruling) arguing over the permissibility and purpose of female genital cutting. However, many traditional cultures in East Africa and other Muslim jurisdictions have made such claims for female genital cutting. In Judaism, the religious male circumcision ceremony ( brit milah) is usually performed on infants.
Genital cutting is performed for reasons such as: The vast majority of genital cutting in the world is done for religious motives (though not all members of genital cutting religions adhere to the practice).
