 FGM practitioners see the procedures as marking not only ethnic boundaries but also gender difference.According to this view, male circumcision defeminizes men while FGM demasculinizes women.Fuambai Ahmadu, an anthropologist and member of the Kono people of Sierra Leone, who in 1992 underwent clitoridectomy as an adult during a Sande society initiation, argued in 2000 that it is a male-centred assumption that the clitoris is important to female sexuality.