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...cultural importance needs to be considered. Although female circumcision is internationally condemned as a human rights violation, some argue that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage. The film “Asylum,” released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father’s attempts to force her to marry an older man and undergo female circumcision. Andoh fled her home country and was detained in the United States for a year before receiving asylum. The discussion following the film mainly focused on whether the practice...
...What are some of the more bizarre questions you've been asked by readers? Well, I did get some really weird e-mail questions when the column came out. I had a woman who - I didn't know if she was kidding or not - but she e-mailed me that her boyfriend would pop the pimples on her face [laughs] ... and how could she get him to stop. I wrote: "I would break up with him!" I was just like, "Move! Move away!" I hope that one was made up. People often ask me things with their kids...
...some evidence that this trend might be developing," said InsiderAdvantage's Matt Towery. "Finally, Clinton has a demographic that she could possibly go after to gain votes. She currently trails among women in Mississippi, but leads among men. If she could turn the uniqueness of becoming the first woman President into a major talking point, she might make additional progress with Mississippi women...
...Evelynn is my choice as the College dean because, first and foremost, she’s the best person for the job,” said Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith, “independent of the fact that she’s a woman and an African-American...
What could be more French than sex? More sex, as it turns out - especially if you happen to be a woman. Nearly 40 years after France's May 1968 revolution spawned the slogan "pleasure without obstruction," a new study finds that the French of both genders are engaging in more varied and frequent sex than ever before - and both earlier and later into life. Yet perhaps the most significant finding in the report is that French women have been playing serious sexual catch-up with their male counterparts since the last national sex survey...