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Psychology
Female genital mutilation is a practice in some cultural traditions, which is partly or total removing of the external genitalia of girls and young women for non-medical reasons. According to the article there are four types of going through the procedure; the first type is removing partial or cutting of the clitoris and/or the prepuce. Second type is removing partial or total, of the clitoris and labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora. The third type is narrowing of the vaginal orifice by cutting and bringing together the labia minora and, or, the labia majora to create a type of seal, with or without excision of the clitoris. The fourth type is all other harmful ways to the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, like pricking, piercing, inciting, scraping and cauterization of the cervix (Althaus, 1997).
However, there are twenty-nine countries that still have this practice and tradition in their society. According to the statistics, female genital mutilation is almost inclusive in Egypt, Somalia, Guinea, and Djibouti. There are 30 million girls that are at risk of going through female genital mutilation before their 15th birthday. Also, the data show that the majority of those girls think that the female genital mutilation should end, except for people in Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gambia and Egypt, where many female populations thinks that this performer should continue (UNICEF).
Female circumcision is a sexual bias because of the control that the parents have over their female children, and the idea of how they decide the sexual feelings of their daughter is just insane and inhumane. FGM makes women have less or almost no feelings during sexual activities or no sexual arousal with their partners. Despite the health danger that they put them into; FGM is not an easy procedure, and people tend to do it without a medical supervision, which can cause death or permanent health problems due to severe pain. Also, there is a high risk of getting cancer due to unclean tools that are used during the procedure and lack of health-medical sterilization and cleaning afterwards (Althaus, 1997).
If I was a member of a culture that expected girls to undergo this procedure I would not want my daughter to undergo female genital mutilation because my culture or tradition. This procedure doesn’t make any sense, and I don’t see why I would want to deprive my daughter of sexual pleasures. It is not fair to make women a sexual subject for men, where they enjoy the sexual intercourse without caring of the female’s feelings or sexual pleasure. I believe that God created sex as a pleasure for both men and woman and nobody should decide otherwise.
Even though, people tend to do FGM because of the fear. Many people fear because if women do not undergo the procedure they would likely have sex with men and bring shame to the society or their families, but why are they not trying to control men’s sexual arousal and prevent them from tricking women into bed? Why treat women as if they were the head of ravage on earth? This is how it all started, when society expects women to behave, they give them no forgiveness if a mistake or any kind of unwanted behaviors were committed, unlike the ways they treat men if they were to commit the same mistake. Men’s mistakes are not considered as shameful as women’s mistakes; this is due to sexual bias in male dominant societies.
References
Althaus, F. (1997, September 28). Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage Or Violation of Rights?. Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage Or Violation of Rights?. Retrieved October 13, 2014, from http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2313097.html
Crooks, R., & Baur, K. (2013). Our sexuality (Twefth ed.). New York: Cengage Learning.
PREVALENCE. (n.d.). UNICEF STATISTICS. Retrieved October 13, 2014, from http://data.unicef.org/child-protection/fgmc
