Female ablation - Clitoris mutilation

in #life6 years ago
Did you know that at least 200 millions of girls and teenagers of Africa, Asia, Europe and America have been subjected to female genital mutilation?

Do you know what that is?.

Welcome friends from steemit, in this post I want to talk about this human rights matter, femine mutilation and invited you to ask to yourself why millions of girls have to get through this procedure?.

What is female ablation?
It is a surgical procedure, which consists in partially or totally removing of the external female organs, which includes external labial and clitoris. The same procedure may include narrowing the vaginal opening, cutting and removing the labial lips which are sutured and joined together.

Reasons for female ablation
The main reasons that sustain this practice are religious and cultural, even though no religious text describes this practice (Muslims and Catholics).
The reasons will depend on the community or the historical time in which the practice is developed, however, all the cultures that motivate this practice dictate that it is necessary to prepare the girl for adult life and marriage, therefore, this procedure is aimed at ensuring the virginity and acceptable sexual behavior of women, since this procedure regulates the expression and intensity of a woman's sexual behavior.

How is it the procedure?
The girl gets naked, removing her underwear, sits on a bench. in which at least 3 women hold her, one of them encircles her chest tightly with her arms, and the other two women keep their thighs separated so that their vulva is fully exposed.
In the first procedure: The clitoris is removed, one of the women takes a razorblade and removes the clitoris.
For the second procedure: A cut of the outer labial is made on both sides of the vagina, then wash the surface of the wound and remove the cut flesh.
For the third procedure: For make sure to leave a narrow opening for the menstrual period and urine. Meanwhile, the upper labial are united through a painful suture. To ensure the union of the labial, they tie the girl's hip to her feet, immobilized for a few days.
Finally, during the marriage the husband can remove his wife's suture and verify her purity


Procedure

This procedure is developed in cold blood, is usually supervised by the mothers of the girls and the quality of the procedure will depend on the technical capacity of the person who makes in the procedure.

Do you think it has any benefit?
Actually no, the practice itself only generates a process of painful physical recovery, hemorrhage, fever and even death. In the long term, it alters the sexual activity of the woman, limiting her through fear, pain and repudiation, there is a psychological alteration related to the side effects and infections.


After this brief description of the procedure, can you consider the millions of young girls who have already undergone this procedure? Can you consider the other millions of girls who are at risk?

What does that skin cut mean to girls?
Are we impure from birth?

This week, as part of the celebration of women's day, I realize that there is still a long way to go, women in the world die every day because of inequality, power and violence.

This is an important human rights issue to address, why can not women be sexually free? Why purity is something that others must decide and check for us? What is purity anyway? Why should we tolerate this level of violence towards us?

How different would our lives be at this time if we had been part of those millions of mutilated girls? Would we enjoy sex in the same way? Would we see sex in the same way?.
It's not just inequality, it's pain

As women we do not ask for superiority, we only ask to be equal in respect, recognition and freedom.

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Hey @elainem, thanks for sharing! So many things out there to be happy for and about. Always keep staying positive! Thanks for a nice post! Cheers

Hi!
Well, I think this is not a matter to be happy about.
I hope you can share this information with others.

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