No, research on animal is made for 1
business, money, economical interests, social interests (a faster career);
2
ignorance, obscurantism, traditionalism3
sadism, fun, crueltyAnd these reasons are not too different from the conservativism that bring some people to maintain such cruel traditional uses.
Rape, torture and genital mutilation were made to oppress the people in their
social and sexual life https://sites.google.com/site/completebaby/femaleand genital mutilation was also performed by lot of doctors.
http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/in ... 6&Itemid=6Like its male counterpart,
circumcision of females has two histories. First it is a ritual or customary practice among tribal societies (mostly in Africa) and some Islamic communities. Secondly it is a
medical intervention,
justified by Victorian (and, in the USA, some twentieth century) doctors in exactly the same way as they rationalised circumcision of boys:
to deter masturbation, to treat obscure nervous disorders such as hysteria, neurasthenia and epilepsy, and thereby to promote health.
Please have a look at the video on animal testing:
http://vimeo.com/68294408