Infibulation (from the Latin fibula, brooch) is a female genital mutilation. Consists in the removal of the clitoris, labia minora, part of the labia majora with vaginal cauterization, followed by the stitching of the vulva, leaving only a hole open to allow the outflow of urine and menstrual blood.
The origins of female genital mutilation is linked to traditions of ancient Egypt (hence the name of pharaonic infibulation). It is estimated that in Egypt, although the practice is banned, yet Today between 85% and 95% of women have undergone infibulation. Somalia, where the practice has spread to 98%, was defined by the anthropologist de Villeneuve le pays des femmes cousues, the village women sewed.
in most cases is carried out on girls aged 2 to 8 years.
At the time of "ceremony" older girls should not cry, would prove a negative, would shame their parents. "If you cry you are not worthy of your father," sing the village women. Leaving the small tom-toms are to receive them: it is a party. "If you are excised does not have friends, you have no right to court by any boy, you can not behave like a woman. "Seven days to heal the wound, otherwise you go to the hospital. If we survive in that dark room, away from home, often far from their parents, after being cut with a rusty boxcutter without no anesthesia.
Look here the final result http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Type_IV_circumcision.jpg
Marriage is impossible to eat because of barrier created by surgery, then the husband or relatives of the bride widen the vaginal opening with a small knife so that sexual intercourse can take place. And 'female relatives of the groom's responsibility to examine the bride a few weeks after the wedding and, if necessary, enlarge the vaginal opening.
Enlargement done for the consummation of the marriage is not sufficient to permit delivery. So, at that time, female circumcision is still to be enlarged. This task is generally done by her grandmother. After delivery the infibulation must be repeated.
Female circumcision is practiced in patriarchal societies in nature, in which she is considered an inferior being, with a sexuality to be repressed and the order in which female sexuality is seen as an impure instincts, which must be controlled: it guarantees the virginity of women, reduces sexual desire, prevents masturbation.
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Kamala
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