Editing Female genital mutilation (section)

==Methods==
[[File:Clitoral anatomy updated.jpg|thumb|alt=diagram|upright=0.9|Anatomy of the [[clitoris]], showing the [[clitoral glans]], [[Crus of clitoris|clitoral crura]], [[Corpus cavernosum of clitoris|corpora cavernosa]], [[Bulb of vestibule|vestibular bulbs]], and [[Vagina#Vaginal opening and hymen|vagina]]l and [[Urinary meatus|urethral openings]]]]
The procedures are generally performed by a traditional cutter (''exciseuse'') in the girls' homes, with or without anaesthesia. The cutter is usually an older woman, but in communities where the male [[Barber#History|barber]] has assumed the role of health worker, he will also perform FGM.<ref>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 42–44 and table 5, 181 (for cutters), 46 (for home and anaesthesia).</ref>{{efn|UNICEF 2005: "The large majority of girls and women are cut by a traditional practitioner, a category which includes local specialists (cutters or ''exciseuses''), traditional birth attendants and, generally, older members of the community, usually women. This is true for over 80 percent of the girls who undergo the practice in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, and Yemen. In most countries, medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, and certified midwives, are not widely involved in the practice."<ref name=UNICEF2005>[[#UNICEF2005|UNICEF 2005]].</ref>}} When traditional cutters are involved, non-sterile devices are likely to be used, including knives, razors, scissors, glass, sharpened rocks, and fingernails.{{sfn|Kelly|Hillard|2005|loc=491}} According to a nurse in Uganda, quoted in 2007 in ''The Lancet'', a cutter would use one knife on up to 30 girls at a time.{{sfn|Wakabi|2007}} In several countries, health professionals are involved; in Egypt, 77 percent of FGM procedures, and in Indonesia over 50 percent, were performed by medical professionals as of 2008 and 2016.<ref>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 43–45.</ref><ref name=UNICEF2016/>