The little data that helps
with tracing the origins of FGM claim that the third type of FGM, infibulation which is also considered one of the most extreme types in relation to the others, derives from the Egyptian Pharoah, while it has been recorded that clitoridectomy (the first type of FGM) was taken into practice in the Western world during the 50s» as a therapy for women that have been diagnosed
with hysteria,
nymphomania etc. (Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1997, p. 16 & Castledine, 2006).