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 ...

The NHS compulsory reporting regulations are intended to protect women and girls from the sometimes fatal practice of intentionally altering or causing injury to the female genital organs for ...

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 ...

Telling a grown woman who has chosen to have her genitals pierced that she has been mutilated is a step backwards, not only for women’s rights, but also for the fight to end FGM. With up to 150 ...

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 ...

New NHS rules mean that all women with 'intimate piercings' will count as female genital mutilation victims. All women who have vaginal piercings, even consenting adults, will be classed as victims of ...

KAT Sikorsa thought she had seen most things, thanks to her job at a tattoo and piercing lounge in Southampton city centre. Her working day is filled with people wanting to change the way they look – ...

Cassi Lopez is the head body piercer at New York Adorned. She has worked in the field for 14 years and specialises in ear and female genital piercings. The following story was told to Kelsey Castañon ...

Almost all known cases of female genital mutilation carried out in the UK are legal piercings, official figures show. The Department of Health controversially decided all intimate piercings should be ...

Renowned body piercer Elayne Angel kicked off this year’s Sex Week speaker series Monday evening by introducing students to different types of genital piercings during an event at Harris Hall. NU Sex ...

Members of the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee received quite an education in body modification Wednesday night while discussing a measure to clarify licensing requirements for ...