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Since FGM was outlawed in Egypt in 2008 the percentage of girls aged 15 to 17 who have had FGM has dropped from 75% to 60%. In this excerpt from The Inquiry, women’s rights activist Dalia abd El-Hameed says Egypt needs a sexual revolution if it’s to get that number down to zero. (Image: A gynaecologist cooperating with the Coptic Center for Training and Development gives a lecture on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in a village close to Beni Sueif a town 130 kilometers south of Cairo.)