You wrote that male circumcision "is not as drastic or as hideous as female genital mutilation, where sexual feeling is removed, rather than merely blunted by scar tissue."  But there are more than one type of female circumcision (FC), just as there are more than one type of male circumcision (MC).  That is why, for example, the American Academy of Pediatrics' stance on FC [pdf] is that it "opposes all types of female genital cutting that pose risks of physical or psychological harm" (the linked-to AAP paper discusses four types of FC).  To be sure, some of the FC procedures are significantly more drastic than some of the MC procedures, but the reverse is also true.