Under new National Health Service (NHS) guidelines in the U.K., consensual vaginal piercings are now being classed as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by default. I am British — born and bred — and as ...

Women with vaginal piercings will now be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) under new government rules. Even if an adult has consented to the piercing, she will be viewed as having ...

All women who have "intimate piercings" will be classified as having suffered female genital mutilation (FGM), the Department of Health says. Even if an adult consents to having it done, she will ...

Under new NHS rules to be introduced next month, any woman whose labia or clitoris has been pierced must be recorded as suffering FGM, a procedure which is illegal in the UK. The mandatory reporting ...

The NHS will now record a woman with a pierced labia or clitoris as having undergone female genital mutilation, following guidance from the World Health Organisation Vaginal piercings such as 'clit ...

All women who have "intimate piercings" will be classified as having suffered female genital mutilation (FGM), the Department of Health says. Even if an adult consents to having it done, she will ...