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UFO cult backs Africa's first clitoris restoration hospital

Claude Vorilhon, leader of the Raelians, speaks on March 24, 2003 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo/AFP

What you need to know:

  • Its surgeons claim they can restore sexual feeling and orgasms to victims, although the results remain contested by some doctors.
  • The centre is called the Kamkazo, or "the house for women", but is nicknamed "the Pleasure Hospital".
  • It has been built by Clitoraid, an NGO set up by Raelians to campaign for an end to FGM.
  • It says it has financed the hospital with donations from private individuals.

A UFO cult , a religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are an element of belief, is behind Africa's first clitoral restoration hospital in Burkina Faso, set to open in March, which will offer a controversial surgery to victims of female genital mutilation.

The Raelian sect believes that humans were created by extra-terrestrials to experience joy. It promotes world peace, democracy -- and sexual satisfaction.