Ralph Raico comments:

An excellent, well-reasoned article, Phil, as usual. One small correction. You say that the hideous practice of clitoridectomy is supported by the local culture in Sudan. In fact, it is practiced quite widely in Arab and African countries. Typically, western feminists, in a permanent outrage at the crimes of the “patriarchy,” have yet to denounce this atrocity inflicted on millions of girls and women in the third world.

Lew, I first heard about this practice years ago from Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who very sweetly referred to it as the removal of “a woman’s seat of pleasure.” Leave it to a Catholic to be a realist in these matters.