Sociological Approach of Female Genital Cutting
Introduction to the Mutilation:
As it stands in a massive list of cultural issues, female genital cutting (FGC), also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is a barbaric practice which occurs even to this day in different parts of the world. The term as per the description of the World Health Organization (WHO), refers to:
“all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.”
To be more specific, FGC involves the total or partial cutting away of the female external genital organs with razors, ceremonial knives, or blades under non-hygienic conditions without anesthesia, usually performed before the start of puberty such as between the ages of four and eight. However now, it is performed on infants who may be a couple days, weeks, or months old. It is identified that FGC contains four official types of the mutilation according to the WHO, beginning with the first, Type I, involving the full removal of the clitoris hood, with part or none of the clitoris. Type II, which is the most common form of FGC, entails the entire removal of the clitoris along with the inner labia and voluntary removal of the outer …show more content…
It argues that women should not be denied the simple right to enjoy her sexuality or impartiality to spoil her basic structure of sexual pleasure permanently. In selection of one culture it writes that in tribal societies, they considered to keep women or girls as a product which would be intact to the other person. They feared the female sexuality and decided to control it with such forbidding manner and that is by removing the organs permanently. As the cattle herd is controlled by piercing the nose of the cattle and putting the bridle through their nose, FGC is the male bridle on female
Introduction to the Mutilation:
As it stands in a massive list of cultural issues, female genital cutting (FGC), also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is a barbaric practice which occurs even to this day in different parts of the world. The term as per the description of the World Health Organization (WHO), refers to:
“all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.”
To be more specific, FGC involves the total or partial cutting away of the female external genital organs with razors, ceremonial knives, or blades under non-hygienic conditions without anesthesia, usually performed before the start of puberty such as between the ages of four and eight. However now, it is performed on infants who may be a couple days, weeks, or months old. It is identified that FGC contains four official types of the mutilation according to the WHO, beginning with the first, Type I, involving the full removal of the clitoris hood, with part or none of the clitoris. Type II, which is the most common form of FGC, entails the entire removal of the clitoris along with the inner labia and voluntary removal of the outer …show more content…
It argues that women should not be denied the simple right to enjoy her sexuality or impartiality to spoil her basic structure of sexual pleasure permanently. In selection of one culture it writes that in tribal societies, they considered to keep women or girls as a product which would be intact to the other person. They feared the female sexuality and decided to control it with such forbidding manner and that is by removing the organs permanently. As the cattle herd is controlled by piercing the nose of the cattle and putting the bridle through their nose, FGC is the male bridle on female