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OK, those of you who went after me for juxtaposing FGM with sex-reassignment surgery, let's hear your thoughts on this.

On the one hand, we have FGM, which the individual submits to (or simply endures) because of family, husband, or cultural pressure, or outright coercion.

On the other hand, we have sex-reassignment surgery, which the individual chooses, and Brazil will now subsidize as an economic right.

Here's a third phenomenon: cosmetic vagina surgery. Apparently, it's voluntary (the woman asks for it), but it's also the result of cultural pressure. Not religious pressure, but aesthetic/commercial/body-imag­e pressure.

Is it a wrong, a right, both, or something in between?