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...Harvard is a more experienced team," MIT Captain Dan Hosken said after the meet. "I think we gave them a good fight...
...Hakansson (and his German female companion Fran Hosken) proceeded to show his grotesque films to an audience of about 25 white (mostly female)students and staff. These films contained no more than redundant sequences of sexual mutilation (clitoridectomy and scarification) of five-and six-year-old black youngsters who were shrieking and fighting during the act and being restrained by older women. Most of the audience literally ran out of the room during the first few minutes of this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Hakansson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that...
...administration. I also testified in Congress on the subject. I offered to the Peabody Museum and to the Department of Anthropology, to give a lecture on female mutilation as special advisor to WHO. This was turned down by the male academic heads, who also refused to order the "Hosken Report: Genital/Sexual Mutilation of Females," the research work which I prepared based on six years of research in Africa and around the world, and which is the only standard research work on the subject. But, quite clearly, the male-dominated, academic community at Harvard does not wish to be informed. Fran...
...Hosken said the recommendations of the World Health Organization last year to adopt national policies abolishing female circumcision have not reduced the problem...
...Sexual castration of female kids on a wholesale level is still prevalent in Africa," Hosken said, adding that elimination of the problem requires "a change in the attitudes of men, because it is men that make the decisions for these women...