Practices that injure or control the sexual and reproductive body and that law and human rights bodies treat as violations, including cutting of the genitals, ironing of the breasts of girls, virginity testing and sterilization without consent. An offense belongs here when the definition is the physical practice itself. It excludes sexual assault by an individual offender. Entries placed here are Female Genital Mutilation, Breast Ironing, Virginity Testing and Compulsory Sterilization.
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Breast ironing, Wikipedia
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is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects
Female genital mutilation (Wikipedia)
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons.
Virginity test (Wikipedia)
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A virginity test is the pseudoscientific practice and process of determining whether a woman or girl is a virgin; i.e., to determine that she has never engaged in, or been subjected to, vaginal intercourse.
Wikipedia: Compulsory sterilization
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Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people.
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