Female genital mutilation, also known as female genital cutting, is a deeply rooted cultural practice in more than 28 African countries, parts of the middle east, and pockets of Asia. Annually, an estimated 2 million girls come of age in such areas.1 Support for the practice in communities is broad-based. Mothers, mothers-in-law, fathers, and religious and community leaders defend the practice ...

ost people in African societies still shy away from an open discussion about women’s sexuality and sexual choices. The claim that making the personal political is ‘Western’ and ‘un-African’ has been widely accepted. Therefore, challenging discrimination on the grounds of sex as a human rights issue is dismissed as ‘un-African’ – implying that the widespread acts of violence against women have b...

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introduction : the aim of this study is to define the trend of the orthodontists and the surgeons in the borderline class iii patients and assess their satisfaction after the surgery. materials and methods : the study population consisted of 31 patients (16 female and 15 male) with the average age of 21 years, whose final occlusion 2 months after the surgery was perfect. the amount of reverse o...

I have recently started university and moved away from home, and also I have met a guy who is now my boyfriend; it is going to be three weeks since we started dating and it has all been really good. We also have already started talking about making love and my boyfriend isn't forcing me into anything, and when I'm with him, it feels right, but the only thing that is bothering me is the fact it ...