[Tunisie: l'excision est "esthétique"](http://bit.ly/16VwCOX)[Tunisian MP stirs row after female circumcision remarks](http://bit.ly/11HdJLI):> “In the (African) regions where it is hot, people are forced to circumcise girls ... because in these regions clitorises are too big which affects the spouses,” Ellouze was quoted in an interview published in the Sunday edition of Maghreb newspaper as saying. > “There are more circumcisions but it is not true that circumcision removes the pleasure for women. It is the West that has exaggerated the issue. Circumcision is an aesthetic surgery for women,” he was quoted as saying.> Ellouze on Monday accused the newspaper of distorting his quotes, saying the journalist “attributed remarks to me that I have not said.”> “She insisted that I respond to the question and I told her that it is a tradition in other countries,” Ellouze said in the assembly.