What do you think of female circumcision in cultures?

Question

Express your positions if you want to support cultures practicing female circumcisions or either unicef to eradicate the practice?

Answer 1

You should define what you are speaking of. Mostly Female circumcision refers to removal of the female prepuce (Clitoral Hood) it is the exact same thing as male circumcision that removes the prepuce (Foreskin). WHO (World Health Organization) has classified FGM in to 4 types. Type 1 being removal of the prepuce. Type 4 being the worst where everything is removed and the women are sewn shut. Even just removal of the female prepuce is illegal in the US on an underage girl, since the FGM act of 1996. Kinda funny how we protect this in women, but not men when it is the same thing. It is also funny how we condemn the practice when we are the only first world country to circumcise the majority of our sons.

Female circumcision and FGM is carried out for the same reasons male circumcision is carried out in the US. They claim there are health benefits, hygiene, and more aesthetically pleasing. Again much like the US, it is usually the victims of it that will carry on the tradition. Most mothers in that part of the world can't bare the thought of their daughter not having it done. They fear their daughter will be looked down on by the community and possibly rejected by a husband if it is not done.

Many women that have undergone FGM Type 4 claim they still experience orgasms. It is very likely that have adapted to what they have and are actually achieving this.

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This practice is reported to cause the disappearance of sexual pleasure for the women affected, as well as major medical complications. However, a five-year study of 300 women and 100 men in Sudan found indications that "sexual desire, pleasure, and orgasm are experienced by the majority of women who have been subjected to this extreme sexual mutilation, in spite of their being culturally bound to hide these experiences."
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As a side note, female circumcision (Type 1), would provide the same benefits in AIDS prevention as male circumcision. Researchers claim, but can not prove, that Langerhans cells *2 present in the male prepuce (but also present in female prepuce & labia) are the reason for the "higher risk" on contracting AIDS. So it is funny we are advocating male circumcision in some of the same regions we are trying to stop FGM.

I guess I look down on anyone or culture that supports messing with a non-consenting persons genitals.

Answer 2

Male circumcision had a cause within the historic days - it avoided infections and the transmission of sickness. "Female circumcision" is a euphemism for a brutal and disabling train that explanations contamination and bad anguish for the females it's inflicted upon. The train has NO cause as opposed to to brutalize younger females. Their tradition is person who practices such a lot of examples of misogyny that this barbaric ritual isn't a shock, but it surely will have to be outlawed by means of the U.N. It's disgusting. @ Connor: you're so misinformed. you will have to quite appear up what they do to those 8 12 months historic ladies - with crude devices. It is NOT the identical factor as male circumcision which best cuts off the flap of epidermis overlaying the penis. It entirely disfigures and maims the lady! It DOES NOT "avert infections' IT CAUSES IT and usually even explanations demise from contamination and lack of blood. The ladies who live to tell the tale ordinarily have power urinary tract infections that still shorten their lives. Do a few study earlier than you speak approximately matters you do not fully grasp.

Answer 3

This practice is not only barbaric, dehumanizing and un-unhygienic but makes me want to throw up every time I think about it.
And I'm a guy.
If I can help (I have no money yet)
Let me know!
The men who do this should be castrated, the women who do this (and some do like to carry on the tradition), decapitated.

I can't finish, if I start.
Like John Lennon said, "Woman is the N*gg*r of the world"
Why do some people have to put others down in order to feel good about themselves?

Answer 4

In today's New York Times there is an article in which some African women claim that the US should keep its nose out of THEIR cultural tradition -- female circumcision. http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/a-new-debate-on-female-circumcision/index.html?hp (You have to register to read New York Times articles, but it's free and they don't send spam.)

The arguments these women give (some were voluntarily done as adults) sound eerily like the arguments on this site by people like ponysteel and beacher (whatever his name of the week is) in favor of male circumcision.

Let's stop chopping bits off our babies, male and female!! If anyone of either sex wants to have something like this done as an adult, let them. But infants and children should not be forced or pressured into undergoing cosmetic bodily modification. No one should have any kind of genital cutting done until they are fully mature adults. And even then they should be required to inform themselves about the risks and disadvantages.

Answer 5

Forced female circumcision should be illegal everywhere along with forced male circumcision. Parents should not be allowed to brand their children in the name of their culture or religion.

Answer 6

it's disgusting and dangerous, and it should be outlawed. if you don't know what it is here's a link: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/
it's nothing like male circumcision, which is usually done when the male is a baby (fgm is usually done when a girl is older), and also only removes a small portion of the organ. also, male circumcision is done mostly as a medical precaution and in a sterile environment. fgm is usually performed by the child's family at home, and involves serious mutilation of the female genitalia for no purpose other than custom and religion. also many of the girls die from shock or infection.

Answer 7

Same as I do about male circumcision. It's horrible to remove or alter the genitals of any child without their consent, usually without anaesthetic, and for no good reason.

Answer 8

It is terrible and right back from the stone ages. But then so are the people who practice it or support it.

Answer 9

The people who practice this atrocity should have their heads circumcised from their shoulders.

Answer 10

Its just another sign of women viewed as property by the men in their culture. By the way, call it what it is, genital mutilation. It is NOT circumcision, which by definition is a circular(circum) incision(cision).