Did you ever know that more than 124 million women have undergone female
genital mutilation or also known as female circumcision? According to the
current statistics, this brutal act has been practicing in 27 countries including
countries in Africa, Middle East and few countries in Asia. There is no religious
background for this practice. But it is believed that there is a pre-Islamic
influence for this. Meanwhile in 19th century some gynecologists in Europe
and US have done FMG to treat masturbation.
We’ll take a close look at this issue. As we are in the modern era we should be
able to defeat those superstitious believes and dangerous practices such as
FGM.
What is FGM? It is all kind of actions that comprise total or partial removal of
female external genitalia. It can be some other damage to the female genitalia
for non medical circumstances. FGM is carried out in ethnic groups in order to
tame women sexually because they think that the unmutilated women are
with high sexual desire.