article_snippet: The procedure - which involves having parts of their vagina cut out and then then sewn back together again - is usually performed before a girl turns 12 and is carried out without anesthetic or sterilised equipment.
article_snippet: The practice first began in ancient Egypt and remains a rite of passage in many African and Middle Eastern countries and some parts of Asia.
article_snippet: A girl who is uncut is often seen unclean and sexually promiscuous.
article_snippet: Leyla explains: 'The cutting season in the UK means holidays.
article_snippet: otherwise the girls will start to get horny. '
article_snippet: Our tradition is to cut the girls and make the girls bleed to calm the girls down.
article_snippet: If you don't cut the girls, the girls will think about pleasure all the time, the girls can't help the girls.'
article_snippet: We are High Street girls so don't narrow this code of silence to one particular image.'
article_snippet: Watch 'Stop Cutting Our Girls:
highlights_snippet: Taken out to countries in Africa to have to done during 'cutting season'
  Parents happy for daughters to endure it as makes 65,000 British girls more valuable .
  
highlights_snippet: Women who don't have it are seen as unclean and promiscuous .
  