What is the purpose of female circumcision?

Answer 1

it is a bad habit
they do so to be sure that the girl will be virgin till marriage by reducing her sex drive

Answer 2

Circumcision is mutilation, and it is wrong, whether it happens to a girl or to a boy. In the countries where girls are mutilated and in many more countries where girls are not mutilated, they mutilate groups of dozens of boys, they all share the same rusty knife on the same filthy cot..AND NOBODY GIVES A DAMN.. because they think it is not so bad for a boy or they say there is some benefit to the boy for having it done. After fifty years of experience at being circumcised; my husband of thirty years knows there is no benefit to being circumcised, and he was circumcised in a hospital not in a vermin infested shack.

Circumcision came about to remove as much pleasure from sex as possible, so people wouldn’t be so interested in sex all the time and be willing to spend more time working in the fields, or serving in the army, or worshiping G*d. If they removed anymore from a man, his glans for example, he would not function and he could not produce any offspring to man the army of the king or to work in his fields or to serve G*d. The female has only to receive the sperm to reproduce, so the removal of pleasure can be more extreme.

Female mutilation is normally carried out by the older females of the clan; who, like their counterparts the circumcised males, often see themselves as being improved and this is something that must be done. The male children are mutilated by the circumcised adult males.

These barbaric cruelties to children of either sex have no place in an enlightened world.
That what diminishes the least among us in the least way, diminishes me; for no man is an island, entire of itself...any man's torture diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the torturer calls; he calls for thee. .

While female mutilation is physically more extreme, both are equally morally wrong. As long as mutilation is condoned in this country, who are we to tell the rest of the world
what they do is wrong?

Answer 3

there's no good reason for it. Just overgrown tribal crap, born of superstition and ignorance and buttheaded religious and political beliefs, that removes a shitload of sensitive nerve-loaded tissue and makes sex less enjoyable.

Just like MALE circumsion.

The fact that practice has gained widespread acceptance doesn't make it any less buttheaded. And I'm sick of hearing the hygiene stuff used as a justification for it.

Anybody that can't figure out how to wash his dick shouldn't be trusted with one in the first place. That argument is about as valid as supporting the chopping off of babies' toes so they'll never have to worry about getting toecheese.

Answer 4

Another cultural or religious based way of torturing a female and to put her in her place.

The justification for this is that (in the minds of these religions and cultures) is to help the female stay a virgin or not stray -- because they supposedly do not feel any stimulation during sexual contact.

This is just sick and the practice (mostly in closed social settings) is finding it is being viewed VERY NEGATIVELY and as a FORM OF ABUSE of FEMALES by the entire world.

Answer 5

It's mainly all african and they have the stupidity to call it culture.What it is is torture, and disfirgument. It's like the tribes with the large plates in their mouths(women). Originally it was meant to make the women ulgy so african and arabian slave traders would not kidnap them to sell as slaves or wives. That the men began to use it as a means of control and theoir own enslavement of females. And ove rthe years it has been so accepted in the tribes that most men will not marry a woman who has not had the plate inserted. It's plain male domination and incrimination of women at play,, nothing else.
People who circumcise women do so to control her, degrade her, and make her disfigured so no one else will want her. in this manner a tribesman can have many wives to support him never fearing soemone else will want them from another tribe.
The shame is that most tribes women goes along with it as they were done so as children themselves.(much like muslim women are dominated, and degraded into believing it's the right thing to do) and as adults with little in life to enjoy they actually turn on their daughters tio d this ot ensure they will get a husband. and like I said they have the dam nerve to call it culture. even mos tblacks here in america approve it for them. It sucks

Answer 6

It's a cruel barbaric ritual to ensure that women cannot enjoy sex and the reason they are meant to never enjoy sex is that this is how men feel they can keep their wives loyal and faithful. So it doesn't matter that they cant enjoy sex with thier husbands either, because women pretty well mean nothing to men other than to serve them and possibly slap around.

If women do cheat they are stoned to death, mutilated, or tossed out in the street and no one will help them. Most women in countries like that commit suicide, most are very young. This barbaric ritual is usually done to girls around the ages of 9-11 because that is about the time they are married off...usually to grungy old men who buy them for wives off the family. She has no right to refuse who her father chooses for her husband.

And we complain about life here.

Answer 7

Yup, I concur with the 2 above me. Clitoral circumcision is just another weapon in the potent arsenal of patriarchy, often religious in motivation. Consider reading Bell Hooks for general Feminist vigor in the face of such atrocities....

Answer 8

its utter nonsense. there is no medical, religious, cultural value whatsoever. its continuing subjugation of men against women. so whichever society is practising it, the female in such communities must have a deep re-look into themselves and start a campaign to stop it. Men must also be educated that women are not sex objects and should be treated with respect

Answer 9

to make sure that the female does not feel any pleasure.
this is part of a realigion, im not sure of the name. from africa and asia. they do it to young brides that are getting traded. men wont marry them unless this in done first

Answer 10

There is no useful purpose at all. It is wrong to treat young girls that way.