Is it a religious thing or was it just designed to make sure women saty virgins. Which don't get me wrong I'm not judging anyone, I'm just curious. I mean I think its horrible but I wasn't raised in Africa and I'm not aware of all their traditions and everything. I just was wondering if it was religious. Do women over there believe that it was meant for them. Do you they agree with the practice? I can't see how they would but then again I don't live their lives and i can't really say.
2007-09-07 02:30:07 · 16 answers · asked by Becky 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it's a cultural/religious thing. It's supposed to keep the women from "straying" once they're married. Some women do seem to agree with the practice, probably because it's such a pervasive part of their culture.
2007-09-07 02:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by Cathy 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
There are many different types of genital mutilation both for females and males and these customs can be found around the world in various societies. In some cases it is related to virginity or the passage from being a child to becoming an adult. Similarly many may be intertwined with the cultures religious beliefs or they may have started for some other reason.
2007-09-07 02:39:35 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The common misconception is that FGM only takes place in backwards third-world countries. However, did you know even some white American christian girls were getting sewn shut in their teens in the 50's and 60's? Of course in America, they used antiseptic and anasthesia and doctors performed the procedures so they were safe, clean, and reversible when the girl wanted to get married.
Mostly muslim women in Africa and the Middle East are circumcised because that's how their family ensures that she will stay a virgin. They rarely use sterilization methods on their tools, anasthesia or anything else that would make it less painful and torturous. Most women in those countries have had it done and HATED it, but still force their own daughters to go through it. Unfortunately, it makes sex painful for her whole life.
Sometimes, they just use a piece of broken glass to cut off whatever they can cut as she squirms and screams and cries.
In my opinion, this practice is a horrendous insult to women everywhere and needs to end NOW. Write your congress(wo)man and plead with him/her to do something about this atrocity!
edit: meanolmaw, I learned that in college in a women's studies class entitled "Crimes Against Women." I didn't say every American woman did it, nor did I even say that many did. But some did. We even had a woman come speak to our class who had it done and she was as white and American as Laura Bush. But she had it undone when she got married and has a perfectly normal sex life.
And just FYI, it's "sewn" not "sewed."
2007-09-07 02:40:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is presented to the outside world as a cultural / religious thing...
These poor girls are horribly traumatized mentally, psychically and psychologically for the rest of their lives and then told that this is normal....
These mothers who have had this very same thing done to them when they were little girls (are forced by the husbands they are forced to marry) to encourage and allow this mutilation of their child, many have died from this inhuman practice...
What is done to the little girls is horrible....
What is the little brother thinking of when this is done to his sister?? Would that not harm that child also??
I have always questioned what kind of man / monster would marry and lay with a girl / woman this had been done to??
It is my understanding that to consummate the marriage bed the new husband must take a knife to cut the opening (?)
so after being mutilated she is then raped with a knife? then the marriage is consummated!!!
I can not comprehend what sort of a man that would touch a woman after such had been done to her!?!?
And then to expect her to be able to bear children after being mutilated and cut!!
There are humane ways for the family to guarantee that their daughter is a virgin with out resorting to cruel and inhumane practices....
The barbaric practice is a criminal act against a child and should be punished.....
2007-09-07 04:32:53 · answer #4 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is surgical removal of the clitoris, so that the female has no sexual pleasure. Yes it is to keep them virgins, and to control the population. The men are male chauvinist pigs there.I think husbands will also want this surgeries to keep their wives at home and away from other men. I do not in any way agree with this!
2007-09-07 02:39:07 · answer #5 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Fact is, the clitoris is removed. I thought it was done so the woman would have no erotic sensations and stay faithful.
Women are property used for work, child raising and cooking so why should they have good feelings about the sexual activity.
2007-09-07 02:47:48 · answer #6 · answered by Bob W 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's cultural, and christians like CJ don't seem to have the understanding of what religions are regionally existant. In the part of Africa she's talking about, CJ, they practice tribal religions. Read something sometime that isn't organized by chapter and verse and you may learn that.
2007-09-07 02:37:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Men originated the practice so that women would not get so much sexual pleasure that they would be tempted to stray from the harem.
2007-09-07 02:55:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a cultural thing it is haraam in Islam.
2007-09-07 02:46:09 · answer #9 · answered by je 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
this is cultural mostly in Egypt and africa
2007-09-07 02:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by mas2all 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋