What is female genital mutilation?

What is female genital mutilation? Where is it practiced and by whom? How prevalent is this practice, and what is its function? What is its impact on women’s health?Within your essay, please mention if male bodies have been treated in similar ways. If so, in which countries and centuries? If not, why not? Do you think things should change for society to evolve in a positive way? How do you think things could possibly change in the future? Be sure to include at least 3 scholarly sources no older than 7 years.