Female_Genital_M_utilation

Female Genital M utilation Female Genital Mutilation At a ceremony in Kenya, a little girl, Tenowan was brought out and made to lie down. Cold water mixed with fresh milk was poured on her naked body. The female exciser knelt and began to cut. The razor blade flashed Between the girl’s legs, paring away clitoris and labia. The girl bled a stream of blood onto the hide and dirt, but she did not cry or move. Some of the younger women in the crowd turned away in revulsion. The older women scolded the exciser, who was not experienced and took more than five minutes to do her job. When it was over, the women smeared butter and herbs on the wound and carried the bleeding teen-ager back into the hut, where she was laid on a leafy bed of freshly cut branches amid the gloom of charcoal smoke (McKinley 1). This ritual is a harmful and unnecessary procedure. Whether it is a tradition, female circumcisions should be illegal all over the world. Tradition and religion is a very important part of many cultures. Part of the tradition is to circumcise women between the ages of birth to before marriage (Gregory genital, mutilation, women, practice, girl, female, tradition, part, men, marriage, girls, gilbert, genital, fgm, circumcised, body, because, smooth, should, over, one, night, mutilated, hole, forced, during, discharges, davies, cut, cultures, considered, clitoris, young, world, woman, vulva, urine, urinary, until, uncircumcised, tissue, times, tight, suffer, societies, smells, scholars, scar, religion, protect, out, orgasm