Clitorodectomy (partial or complete removal of the
clitoris) or infibulation (excision of part or all of the external genitalia
and stitching/narrowing of the vaginal opening) are both mutilations.
Cruel as the affected, the child’s consent is never sought. Both are unhygienic
and can cause severe medical complications in future for the girl child.
Erroneously people think female genital mutilation is a
religious mandate. That misconception should be debunked. Nowhere in any
Holy books was it mentioned to circumcise females. Male Circumcision is
enjoined and a sunnah in Islam. It is so encouraged in Christianity too because
of the beneficial health consequences.
Justly, sexual pleasure is a legal right to both sexes on
moral ground. It is very crucial that even religions allow a divorce on
the ground of sexual dissatisfaction. It's a right not a
privilege. Male circumcision enhances pleasure and has health
benefits therefore encouraged. While female circumcision has been proven
to truncate female maximum sexual enjoyment and it bears some health
complications. It should be stopped.
We need to know that what's not copiously prohibited is
permitted by religions. The mix up is in attributing the culture of
some people to be a presumptive aspect of their religions. Remember, Jewish and
Arabian cultures predated Islam and Christianity. Those religions came
with their guides---Holy books.
Without mincing words, female genital mutilation is an
infringement of the child's right at a stage when the child is
incapable of giving valid consent. It's maiming, like amputation of her
hand because you don't want your child to hold male sex organs or blinding of
her eyes because you don't want her to succumb to the pleasure of lusting.
The argument that it is done to curb promiscuity is so
watered that the premise cannot even hold the claim. The absence or presence
of a responsive clitoris does not in any rate affect immorality.
Promiscuity is a choice and fidelity is a discipline. Why do we have
gay if having clitoris is the only danger to infidelity? In the real sense, it
is the absence of pleasure that proliferates the search for it {pleasure} at
all cost. Thus we find ourselves plagued with so much sexual and hedonistic
extremism e.g. sexual child abuse, torture sex, misogyny, asexuality etc. With
pleasure, the female organs relax and the hunger abated. It is same for
every individual. I cannot be convinced that clitoris is an enabler for
promiscuity.
Therefore, I stand against that as I stand against
all piercings. I stand stronger against it because it's against the girl
child's right to choice. It is an abuse of parenthood. Like tribal
incision, it's a minor handicapping of a child that helplessly cannot boast of
valid consent. It's no better than regarding your child as a slave who's with
no dignity as to choice of her pleasure, her image, and her being.
As a rape of pleasure: Female genital mutilation should
be stopped.
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