Male genital mutilation is cutting OFF the penis, circumcision just takes the foreskin

As a teenager in the 1960’s I read the term “female circumcision” and I was very puzzled because male circumcision is cutting off the foreskin, but there is no corollary to the foreskin in female genitalia to remove. Later I found out that “female circumcision” is a mostly Muslim and mostly African custom of cutting …