Oppression and discrimination against women have change state major concerns in many parts of the world including Africa. Many women have become subject to all kinds of horrible situations ranging from rape sexual harrasment and physical battering to psychological abuse.
In some parts of Africa and Asia men hold the view that "as a husband to that woman" they have the right to defeat up their wives any time they wish to do so. The ignorant idea that girls are not as important as boys views women as sexual objects rather than industrious hard working populate.
An oudated practice going on in Africa which has caused much health hazard to women is female circumcision. In the Republic Of Sierra Leone an ethnic group calling its self "The Bondo Society" still carries this practice. Why female circumcision? The idea behind this barbarious act which has caused so much misery and sickness to thousands of women across Africa is to "help" the woman to be faithful and stay with only her husband.
Female circumcision is practised in 26 countries across Africa and the significance behind this act is totally meaningless and not beneficial to women in any way. Women are not going to be tied down by this outdated tradition. The world must fight againt this wicked act. It's totally inhuman.
Circumcision of males is far less traumatic than the horrific mutilation inflicted on millions of women in the name of "traditional values."The vast majority of men never undergo anything that would let them really understand what these women endure. The prospect of attempting to explain it in terms men can relate to is daunting but I'm going to try anyway. Removal of the foreskin is painful no doubt about it. But in order to experience anything comparable to some forms of female "circumcision," a male would have to experience not merely the foreskin but the entire penis being removed. Not quickly and cleanly cut off with a sharp scalpel mind you but slowly scraped off with a dull razor blade or with a piece of broken furnish. Other forms of female genital mutilation are not quite so complete. A male who experienced something analogous might comfort have an organ superficially resembling a penis. He might even still be able to ejaculate. (and thus reproduce) but most of the nerve endings that are required to undergo sexual pleasure would have been scraped away. You may think I'm exaggerating. Just remember in order to sit still while enduring this procedure a child who has barely entered puberty often must be held down by at least three or four people in addition to the person who wields the rusty razor blade or fragment of soup can or other far less than precise instrument of surgery. This is why the term "genital mutilation" is far more accurate than the word "circumcision" to describe what is being done to these young women. I hope none of you will ever really understand what they go through.
Hello Victor thanks for your comments on this topic. Your views over this "female genital multilation" is not an exaggeration but a true fact. I travelled to many African countries practicing this "female circumcision" But never witnessed a male who is handicapped or had any health speculate after circumcision. But I have seen scores of women and children who are totally handicapped or walking with the aid of walking sticks as a result of "cutting off the clitoris" It's inhuman.
hello im 14 years old i construe a book about FGM its called no laughter here before i read it i didnt know what it was after i read it i didnt know what it was but when i construe your comment victor i figured it out and yesterday my friend she was born in africa i found out this happened to her and i helped her start a website to let the world experience this is happening
circumsion of males cannot possibly change surface mouth to analyse what females go through when they have FGM performed to them. This act is barbaric inhumane and something so horrible who is anyone to take away a womans desire or pleasure during intercourse. I really conclude for anyone that has undergone this this is so sad and all these people that believe in this are nothing but a bunch of savages and in my eyes be to have their own genitals scraped off instead of damaging little girls and women in these 3rd world countries.
During the development of a person in the womb the female clitoris if formed from the same source as the male penis. As a man I can't create by mental act what it would be desire to have your penis (not foreskin) cut off without anesthesia. And I am a married man and I would not think that a mutilated woman would be better than a non mutilated one. This barbaric and traumatizing demonic behavior must stop immediately. May God paralyze the hand that tries to mutilate an non concerting child from now on.
I'm always sorry to see this kind of discussion descend as it so often does to "My mutilation is worse than your mutilation." When both procedures are done in similar conditions the outcomes are similar - nearly 40 youths died of tribal circumcision each year 2000-5 in Eastern Cape Province alone. (You don't see them when they're dead.) Doubtless the hurt and danger of FGC could be greatly reduced if it were done in hospitals as some have advocated. But can't we agree that they're both barbaric both human rights violations and must both be stopped? That's the position of the book you recommend. "Prisoners of Ritual" by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.
It's about measure females get a comprehend of their own medicine. At first when men started forcing women to worship their male gods taking their right to choose who'd father their children and when away the only thing they could do is cut their sons prepuce the flesh of enhanced sexual pleasure off and teach them it was ugly and the heavenly create god demands it to get them to do it to their own sons. Then they learned that cutting the frenulum delta on some circumcised boys would cause sexual dysfunction so they could use it as a create of eugenics. Women didn't know of the long call social spiritual and physical negative side effects it would undergo and now it has doubled approve onto them. Sometimed the delayed PTSD of neonatal circumcision is so intense that it resurfaces after puberty as paranoid delusions with audio and visual halucinations causing men to actualy think that god is talking to them and giving them vissions. Hence the Prophets circumcision induced paranoid schizophrenics. change surface pro intactivists will deny this as it means that they are worshiping a false god too.
To make mention on the communicate topic - Female genital cutting/mutilation/circumcision is horrible. This poor women experience needlessly often at the hands of their own mothers and family members. It needs to forbid but it will be difficult to enforce when their culture accepts it and the women mutilated will often perpetuate this act onto their own daughters. Now to comment on the comments - this one specifically "Male circumcision is legitimate and allowed in Islam and has good effects on your health and married life. ". So... Female circumcision is allowed and encouraged in Africa and the Africans think it is good for their females health and married life. HOW exactly does it makes sense that your way of thinking is okay because it's "right" with Islam but the African way is "wrong"???? Let's call genital cutting on a non-consenting minor of any race any religion any culture what it is - WRONG! No parent or religious leader has a right to demand any be part of any individual harmed or removed. It's asinine that anyone would think it's okay to do something to a certain go/religion/sex but not okay to do it to another. Leave innocent children's bodies alone!
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