female genital mutilation

[Dixie]

Things like this makes me feel ashamed to belong to the same species as those monsters. I can't understand why, nowadays, those traditions still exist.

I heard the other day that, somewhere in Spain, a gypsy couple got married, and the bride had to undertake the proof of virginity. My goodness! And that was not even in Africa, where those traditions are still vivid, but in Spain!

A question for you, Garbanzo. You said:

According to experts this is cultural and traditonal practice

What kind of experts do you mean?

If mutilation is culture, then I am a monk!

[Shazzam]

I have heard a bit about this practice over the last few years. Recently Oprah Winfrey did a documentary on the affects and medical concerns involved.

This practice must have been started by a man. I know that is a radical statement to make; but my goodness! From what I have heard about it, the woman aren't supposed to have an sexual satisfaction that is why the procedure is done. The man is the only one to get satisfaction from sex.

I think it should be against the law. It should be treated in the same way as man-slaughter.

A couple of woman in America (that were previously from Africa) had to have cosmetic surgery to try and rectify the obvious problems. They claim that this can be a successful procedure.

The key here has to be education and most importantly a point of law. It has to be made illegal.

[r1lita]

Yeah all that has been said are true ... it's damn cruel, but do women in the places where they practice that do something to counter it. According to me, they better react not wait for the others to undertake something. Cause they won't blossom if it continues.

[Elba]

I think to react to that wild act it would be better for women in that places.Two or three centuries ago at Mexico women must not to feel satisfaction when their housband make them love. They were socialy obligated to not to express satisfaction. And socialy they -women- thought that to feel that were similar to became a protitute. If any woman react with satisfaction, then the man throw out of the house as a prostitute.
Is not easy to react when in the place woman suffer violence. They are afraid, they feel alone. Women of all the world must to do something.

[tikay]

On female mutilation....i am so angry about it I did not want to get into it in here but now it has been avoided quite long enough...I had to come in here and see what was being said.

I think the experts who were claiming this act was necessary for women were tribal elders and were absolutly men....of course they are. These practices were probably done because the elders and men of the tribe were concerned with fidelity....with straying and multiple partnering between women and various males of the tribe if the enjoyment of a healthy sexuality was available to womanin the same way that it was, (available) to male.

The experimant was popular because they were under the false assumption that women would act just like man without these tactics, being demonstrated.

Of course those who have studied cultures know this assumption is false because women bond differently somehow (oxcitocin maybe) and have a usually obvious if not a striking need to be loyal to a mate, and (sigh) a wish for loyalty from her mate. Not every woman feels a need such as this, to be loyal, of course.. but it is commonplace.

Genital mutilation is clearly wrong but the cultures are not acting with the same perspectives that we have and i give them that...so the potential for punishment should be a forced change of policy and that is all....these are the rulers of their world...do you tell a King to stop running his Kingdom? Do you jail him...because you feel that he is wrong in his politics? We might suggest ways to do better but to punish the punisher is not always the answer.
I think this complex situation is best dealt with by simple means. I just can't imagine what they are...
smaybe the women could be offered an alternative home, or the tribal leaders be shown films with the people in the world who strongly find his action a perverted disaster! Interpreters could explain why it is wrong....then they could show them women having orgasms like in the Kinsey movie. HA HA HAH!

Lastly...
I have to say that I seriously doubt a woman who has been mutilated can be a good judge of the feelings she would have experienced without having been so scarred.

[ahmedtaha]

i strongly stand against the genital mutilation, and call the women societies, human rights organizations and continent's unions plus all those who concern about the African issues to stop in front of this damageable act.
Sudan - unfortunately- is one of these countries where the genital mutilation is widely spread .in spite of all efforts that our educated has done during the last 50 years.
yeah it's true that this bad habit consider one of our cultural aspects but that never give justification to continue this brutal act.
the only way to resolve this problem - in my view- is to work without stopping and struggle hardly to let every one know about the dangerous affection of this bad habit in term the fear of making love and the non sexual satisfaction for women beside the high percentage of death during delivering children
in long run term the only solution is education -education and education

[Bambang]

Hmmm...

It sounds terrible.


BTW, What's the worst bad impact?

[sure]

According to experts this is cultural and traditonal practice

According to some researchers this is a tribal cultural and traditional practice passed onto from one generation to another.
And since this is part of their tradition and culture, I think some of the people following this practice don't consider this as a problem at all. It's only the people who are unfamiliar to this practice, thought about this as a problem.

[Danyet]

I think some of the people following this practice don't consider this as a problem at all.

That does not make those people right! Whether or not those people realise it, they need help. Their superstitious ways need to be stamped out or they will spread and infect us all, so it is in our interest that we do something. To remain silent and let them do this practice is a crime! It is the responsibility of those who know better to do something.

[hmmw]

I think is almost impossible that women genital mutilation is happening now a days. There is an international bureau named Amninstia International that could do something for them.Maybe we can contact them or do something to help them.
Hazel