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cindidindi76 wrote:

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In some countries, there are articulate, educated circumcised women who say that it's improved their sex lives btw

Where?

Here for instance: http://tinyurl.com/mbonk or just ask most of the women in Egypt or any other country where a majority of women are circumcised. They'll use the exact same arguments to defend circumcision that are used to defend male circumcision.

Are you aware that the USA also used to practise female circumcision? It was never anywhere near as popular as male circumcision, but there are middle-aged and elderly white US American women walking round today with no clitoris because it was removed. Some of them don't even realise what has been done to them. There are frequent references to the practice in medical literature up until the 1950's. Most of them point out the similarity with male circumcision, and suggest that it should be performed for the same reasons. Blue Cross/Blue Shield covered clitoridectomy till 1977.

One victim wrote a book about it:
Robinett, Patricia (2006). "The rape of innocence: One woman's story of female genital mutilation in the USA."
N.p.: Aesculapius Press. ISBN 1-878411-04-7.