Female Genitalia Mutilation

I remember doing my english presentation on this when I studied Color Purple. Sick imo.

I'm certainly not saying it is a good idea and should be banned, but if females are circumsized, they are less willing for sex, therefore have less sex, therefore spread aids around less.

And why don't they use local anaesthetic? Can't women experience sexual pleasure minus the clitoris - with their G-spotty?

Unfortunately it's enough for the husband to catch aids to infect her as well.

And her willingness has nothing to do with it. Rapes are very common in Africa.

I'm sorry but do you even know what you are saying? The process of cirsumcision is more than enough to infect females with HIV.

DD2 you are completely wrong

if in african countries they stopped believing in **** like magic etc and wore condoms then there would be a lot less aids, unfortunately even the president of south africa believes washing his penis under fresh tap water will protect him from aids. gives us a scale of the problem

I refuse to believe that the amount of sex a girl in africa has is unrelated to how much she wants it.

Does he really? Or is that just something you heard somewhere once and decided was a fact?

I refuse to believe that the amount of sex a girl in africa has is unrelated to how much she wants it. She might not want it and be raped, but if she then likes sex she will be raped and then have sex with someone else. To the other poster who quoted me, according to that video it is done by a doctor or some kind of specialist, who probably knows that holding the knife in a fire until it glows is neccesairy (and the bare minimum).

Does he really? Or is that just something you heard somewhere once and decided was a fact?

And thank God it's dying out.

Neither "culture" nor "tradition" are a justficiation for this horrific practice.

This custom is still legal in some Muslim countries.

Thats what I was getting at. To us it's a "horrific practice", but they've been doing it for a long time. I don't like it at all - I think it's absolutely awful, but my point was that we can't just dismiss all these kinds of rituals and behaviours as 'backward' or 'uncivilised' with the click of a finger. It's tangled up with cultural relativism, and ethnocentricity...isn't it?

I refuse to believe that the amount of sex a girl in africa has is unrelated to how much she wants it. She might not want it and be raped, but if she then likes sex she will be raped and then have sex with someone else. To the other poster who quoted me, according to that video it is done by a doctor or some kind of specialist, who probably knows that holding the knife in a fire until it glows is neccesairy (and the bare minimum).

The choice is there for Western women, no one is, hopefully, forced into it. FGM is absolutely sickening, especially it's most extreme form where women are cut open on their wedding night with a knife. Absolutely brutal.

Thats what I was getting at. To us it's a "horrific practice", but they've been doing it for a long time. I don't like it at all - I think it's absolutely awful, but my point was that we can't just dismiss all these kinds of rituals and behaviours as 'backward' or 'uncivilised' with the click of a finger. It's tangled up with cultural relativism, and ethnocentricity...isn't it?

Not much different to forced male circumcision. Except one is deemed 'socially acceptable' by our standards and one isnt.