Essays on Female Genital Mutilation

The practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, occurs throughout the world, but it is most common in Africa. Female genital mutilation is a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya,…

The fight against the traditional or customary female genital mutilation rages on.  The fight, which started from small beginning with few proponents, has grown up now involving world-wide organizations with strong outreach programs.  The efforts, however, have demonstrated to be tough as perpetrators, for a fee or otherwise, stealthily find ways performing the irrational practice….

Female Genital MutilationFemale Genital Mutilation is believed to have started in Egypt 2,000 years ago and spread from there. Only a few years ago, FGM was considered a cultural tradition, but now the United Nations has labeled it as a violation of human rights. Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States has declared Female…

There are an estimated ninety to a hundred million women and girls living today in African countries, had some form of female circumcision. Circumcision occurs for a number of cultural reasons, such as religion, tradition, preserving virginity, and cultural identification. Female Genital Mutilation FGM is a destructive, invasive procedure performed on girls before puberty. Part…

Today alone 6000 girls around the world are being held down screaming, crying, and blacking out from the pain pleading for their elders to stop. Their voices fall on deaf ears as their right to sexual pleasure is sliced, chopped, pricked, scraped and burnt away. Female genital mutilation also known as female circumcision is the…

Janice Boddy introduces the term “Pharanoic circumsison”. This is a term used not only in literature, but also by the Sudanese. It is very much like the western term “female circumcision”. In Pharaonic circumcision, the clitoris and labia minora are removed. The labia majora is sewn closed, leaving a small opening at the vulva for…