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Abstract
The goal of this report was to make a study on female genital mutilation. The main points were to find out what female genital mutilation is, which consequences it has, why it is done, how widespread it is and how it can be eradicated.
Female genital mutilation is an ancient blood ritual involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia. ...
A way to eradicate FGM is to educate the ones involved and to develope alternative rites not involving any type of physical mutilation. ...
Female genital mutilation
Even though it is the 21st century, there are still a vast number of women around the world who are being repressed, female genital mutilation only being one example. ... Most people have knowledge of this inequality, female genital mutilation on the contrary, is a subject not given much attention, and many people have never even heard about it.
What is female genital mutilation?
Female genital mutilation (FGM) a. ... female genital circumcision is a term referring to any practice including the removal or alteration of part or all of the female external genitalia. ...
The procedure
The type of mutilation practice and the age of the girls undergoing it, varies depending on the ethnic group, what country they live in and whether it is in a rural or an urban area. ...
Only a few girls undergo the mutilation alone, it is more often undergone as a group of sisters, close female relatives or neighbours. ...
The mutilation is most often carried out using broken glass, a tin lid, scissors, razor blades or other cutting materials. ... Group female circumcisions are scheduled every three years in the villages. ... When the mutilation is carried out haemorrhage, shock due to intolerable and prolonged pain, infection, tetanus, septicaemia and damage to the organs surrounding the clitoris and labia can occur. ... This constant cutting and restitching of the woman’s genitals with each birth can cause in tough scar tissue in the genital area. ... Moreover, since the clitoris holds a massive number of nerve endings and generates feelings of sexual arousal when stimulated, the mutilation with partly or complete clitoridectomy affects sexual fulfilment. ... The first historical reference to female circumcision can be found in the writings of Herodotus, a Greek historian, who reported its existence in ancient Egypt in the fifth century B. ... From its probable origin in Egypt and the Nile Valley, female circumcision is thought to have diffused to the Red Sea coastal tribes, along with Arab traders, and from there into eastern Sudan. ... The number of girls undergoing genital mutilation worldwide is alleged to be more than 6. ...
In lots of societies the mutilation is part of an initiation ceremony marking the transition to adulthood. ... An African woman have stated: “Female circumcision protects the health of a woman. ... , while excluding physical mutilation. ...
Comparisons between male and female circumcision
Over the years, FGM has frequently been equated with male circumcision. ...
Conclusion
Female genital mutilation refers to the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. ...
A way to eradicate this practice is to educate the ones involved and to develope alternative rites not involving any type of physical mutilation. ...
The overall conclusion on this report is that the practice of female genital mutilation is a very serious problem, scarring young girls for life, which has to be stopped at once one way or another.
Approximate Word count = 2624
Approximate Pages = 10.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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