Female circumcision

[donnashuggy]

It's on now on Insight, not many topics I cannot keep an open mind about but this is one

I had to change the station after 2 minutes

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/17956419892/Insight-Clear-Cut-Fuambai-on-female-circumcision-a

[crystal**flake]

I dont think the word 'circumsision' really suits what is actually happening, its mutilation.

It gets rid of the womans sexuality and the almost ability to give birth.

[icyfroth]

It's disgusting and against the law and I don't see how  people living here think they have the right to do it to their girl children.

[donnashuggy]

not in all cases but  I stopped watching

[lionrose.7]

This is some thing that makes me so angry, it is like a punishment for being a women.

I have also read stories about it that have broken my heart

[katydidthat]

This seems to me to be totally illogical ... if a woman has her important bits removed, how is she going to enjoy intimacy?  Why would she want to get married?  Doesn't the man suffer too?  

[donnashuggy]

I think you need to watch the show to find out, I can't, there are many different procedures and some of them are able to enjoy sex, I couldn't hang around to find out

[lady*em]

They don't want women to feel any pleasure.  that is the whole idea of female mutilation.  And the women in these cultures usually have no choice about getting married - their marriages are arranged. 

It's obscene, and any parent in this country found doing it should have their children removed from their care.  No questions asked. But that won't be done of course, for fear of upsetting these minority groups.

And I'm still always amazed how many people are up in arms over female mutilation, and yet find nothing wrong that baby boys are having their foreskins removed.  I can see very little difference at the base level, even though boys still have normal feelings afterward.

[icyfroth]

This seems to me to be totally illogical ... if a woman has her important bits removed, how is she going to enjoy intimacy?  Why would she want to get married?  Doesn't the man suffer too?  

She's not meant to enjoy sex. That's why they do it. It's meant to keep her a faithful wife.

She may not want to get married, but she will be sold into it by her parents.

The man doesn't suffer, it's what he requires according to their customs. He wouldn't accept anything else.

[lionrose.7]

Katy the people who do this belong to a people where most marriages are arranged, sometimes young girls to old men.

The thing is it is done to keep the women inline, they don't wont them to enjoy sox.