Kuria Female Genital Mutilation FGM feature - ann ngugi - KTN

Despite the efforts by the Kenyan government to stop female genital mutilation (FGM), some communities still practice it as a rite of passage. Ann Ngugi is a news reporter and a Swahili Anchor at KTN, a leading Media station in Kenya.

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[siasabora]

this is an old mens' conspiracy to get at young girls to be their wives...it's dirty and interrupts girls education pursuits.

[markmywords53]

They can still get pleasure from penetration, and from pleasing their husbands.

[markmywords53]

Not true. A castrated man cannot reproduce, and he lacks his natural hormones. Neither statement is true of a woman or girl who has lost her clitoris and labia.

[o0portal0o]

Cutting off your clitoris is just as bad or worse than cutting off one of your limbs or breasts.

Disgusting. I am sure MGM can cause complications but it is not as dangerous as cutting off the clitoris and labia. Just as bad as castration. The percentage of infection is insanely high. Not to mention the deaths that happen.  I am against both MGM and FGM though. You have body parts for a reason.

[ELSOL102]

Removing the clitoris is equal to cutting off the head of a man's penis. If that is done to a man there is NO sex. For a woman there is no desire but she still has a hole that can be penetrated. Sex is uncomfortable with lack of desire & no lubrication and no feelings but she exists to please the man nothing more. The circumcised man loses some sensation but still has a lot left they still love sex. IF the woman is infibulated husband cuts her open on wedding night. Very painful.

[ELSOL102]

Circumcision is wrong. Men lose some sensation but they still are able to have passion and pleasure. The women who have their clitoris removed have no desire for their husband their desire has been removed. The infibulation is really horrible because the is opened on her wedding night and sex is painful and complications follow her for her lifetime, urine/blood retention, childbirth problems, infection. The woman is there to please husband and make babies but she has NO sexual feelings left

[Sambucca]

I said 'most', not all. Obviously there are more complications experienced when birthing is concerned. It's not an ability men share. I am just personally tired of the way MGM gets sidelined as being a harmless little snip, when it has infact adversely affected so many men's lives. In America, a female child's genitals are protected from so much as a pin prick -a practice observed by some Indonesians- yet boys are still subjected to full foreskin amputation. It's a nasty double standard.

[ntrelief5277]

Just to let you know.

I am against MGM and FGM. I don't think either are right.

[ntrelief5277]

The death rate among babies during and immediately after birth is also much higher for those born to mothers with FGM: 15% higher in those with FGM I, 32% higher in those with FGM II plus the heavy bleeding afterword can put her health at risk.

Fgm complications after the surgury can include bacterial infection, urine retention, cysts,

infertility, open sores in the genital region and injury to nearby genital tissue. The possiable death of your child due to FGM how is this comparable to MGM?

[Sambucca]

Most of the consequences of Type 1 and 2 FGM can be translated into a consequence of foreskin removal. Men with too much skin removed can have uncomfortable erections, deformations of the penis and sex is painful or less.pleasurable. Boys in Africa are often circumcised by people who are not of a medical profession, with unclean utensils putting them at serious risk of infection.