A painful ancient ritual - Female Circumcision

The mistreatment of young girls and women in general in parts of the world, in the name of tradition

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• A painful ancient ritual
• Female Circumcision
• Circumcision
• Barbarities
• Child abuse.

[dalriada842]

@Tiffany181187 The greed stems from the billions of dollars that can be made from promoting it in places like the US. Infant boys foreskins are worth a fortune to the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries! There is a plan by international bodies to circumcise 28 million African males over the next five years.A lot of these men and boys will die as a result of the poor conditions!The survivors are likely to spread HIV to their partners as they believe that circumcision makes them immune to HIV!

[dalriada842]

@Tiffany181187 Quackery and greed are behind claims that genital mutilation, usually of males, helps to reduce HIV. The quackery stems from cultural bias based on an antiquated nervous model of disease, from the Victorian period. They keep the bias current, by claiming its efficacy in dealing with whatever the disease of the moment is, currently HIV. Religious bias by followers of the Abrahamic religions lends additional 'moral' weight to the abuse. Continued.

[dalriada842]

@MoonSapphireDemon Blood loss and infection are two of the killers to genital mutilation. BTW The male foreskin has two and a half times the number of nerve endings as the female clitoris. All the boys in that community also had their genitals mutilated too. But then that's not thought worthy of mention in the video!

[dalriada842]

@lucyliu77 In tribal societies, it is the men who steer the boys towards their concept of adulthood. It is the women who steer the girls towards their concept of adulthood. Men have little to do with female circumcision(fc). In all societies where fc is practised, male circumcision(mc) is also practised. The men already have their 'male parts cut off', in a sense. Perhaps if they didn't experience their own form of emasculation, they would be more appreciative of the need to stop fc also!

[dunokuba]

I came here just to read the comments

[Tandykane]

@BLA7IINW33D

BS, there are more nerves in the foreskin than the clitoris--do your research!

[BLA7IINW33D]

@Hobbymaster1000 Umm actually it would be like cutting the head off of the penis.

[mscynergie]

Total child abuse on so many levels, the children are told by their parents that they are having a party for them and they end up being tortured? Children learn to trust through their parents. These children will never be normal productive people, they will never trust, never love, never feel 'normal' again, as long as they live. Whoever does this to these poor innocent children will certainly go to hell. I hope and pray everyday that this will stop.

[Tandykane]

@brennaliiah1112

Let's not forget the men who torture their sons.

[brennaliiah1112]

I SHAME ALL MUSLIM WOMEN WHO TORTURE THEIR DAUGHTERS JUDT BECAUSE!! I AM THANKFUL I AM AN AMERICAN AND MYSELF ABD MY DAUGHTER WILL NEVER HAVE TO BE TREATED LIKE THAT!! ALL THOSE COUNTRIES ARE SICK AND DO TERRIBLE THINGS TO WOMEN AND THEIR OWN PPL!! I KNOW IT'S NOT EVERYONE BUT THE MAJORITY!!! SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME ON ALL OF YOU WOMEN WHO ALLOW THIS TO BE DONE!!!