Female Genital Cutting and Long-Term Health Consequences – Nationally Representative Estimates across 13 Countries
利用13个非洲国家的全国代表性数据，比较了切割与未切割女性的长期健康结果，发现切割女性生育更多孩子，但性传播感染风险增加24%，生殖器问题增加15%，且更早结婚。
Using cross-sectional data from 13 African countries, I compare long-term health outcomes across cut and uncut women. This study is the first to use nationally representative data. Consistent with medical research, no evidence of general health impairments or decreased fertility induced by female genital cutting (FGC) is found; rather cut women have more children. The most pronounced long-term health impairments are a 24 per cent increase in the odds of contracting sexually transmitted infections and a 15 per cent increase in genital problems. Concomitantly, the odds that a cut woman will marry before an uncut woman are 13 per cent.