Female Genital Mutilation or FGM

Was reading an article on FGM on AlJazeera yesterday. It amazes me that in this day and age, and in any country the people who do this end up living, this abomination still occurs. It seems to me like such a violation of human rights. How can one be a mother and let this happen to your child?  I can't personally think that it is normal to have your daughter cut with a razor blade or broken glass to remove all her protruding female parts? And by people you trusted? How do you ever trust your mother again?

The irony is that FGM is supposedly done to keep women faithful and from having sex outside of marriage. Here's the thing I doubt it prevents prostitution in the countries where the practice is prevalent. I'm sure it also doesn't prevent adultery. Women will have sex to please the male they like, despite whether or not they will enjoy the sexual act. So other then mutilate female bodies, FGM accomplishes very little.