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Results of the pilot study
 The tools can provide a way to talk about taboo topics such as FGM/C and how it affects sexuality
• “I’m convinced that this (FGM/C) has had an impact on me (...) of course, this has an effect, I won’t lie to you, it has an effect, you feel like you are cold (sexual frigidity). This coldness comes, for no reason, not from you, they took your stuff (genitalia). They tell you it’s from the brain (sexual arousal), the brain sends a signal to the stomach that you are full, but how can it send a signal, where to send it? There’s nothing there (no genitalia to receive the signal of sexual arousal from the brain). ”
Cardiff Fertility Studies
Results of the pilot study
 The tools can provide a way to talk about areas of health education not usually discussed in conservative societies like Sudan e.g. sexual education
• “when we are laying together (implying sexual intimacy), you know because I have pharaonic (FGM/C) sometimes it goes in and other time it doesn’t. I mean when it is big, why does it get big, when it gets big it can’t go in, but when it’s small it can go in. You see the hole (vaginal opening) is this big (indicating ~1 cm with her fingers)”
Cardiff Fertility Studies
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