Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation As you are reading this article, there are between eight and ten million women and girls in the Middle East and in Africa who are at risk of undergoing one form or another of genital cutting. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision, or female genital cutting, has been practiced for several thousand years in almost 30 African and Middle Eastern nations. ... Within practicing African countries, prevalence ranges from 5% to almost 100% of women affected (Female Genital Mutilation). ... FGM involves the removal of genital tissues from girls and it is performed in different ways, depending on the culture or location where it takes place. ... There is a piercing pain and agony with every bloody cut in some settings, dust and ashes may be used to stop the bleeding and ‘help healing’ and then they shut the girl’s legs together (Female 40). ... Table 1 4 Types of Female Genital Mutilation Type of FGM Description Sunna Circumcision The first and mildest type of FGM. ... Source: Female genital Mutilation in Africa, the Middle East, & Far East. ... In fact, one of the major reasons for FGM, Brady states, is “to diminish female sexuality and to ensure virginity and chastity before marriage and fidelity afterward (50).