Female Mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation

Almost every person around the globe has a different viewpoint of different subjects. One such example is that of female genital mutilation, or otherwise noted as female circumcision. Many groups of people find female genital mutilation to be sacred while another group believes it to be terribly horrendous. Each year millions of women worldwide undergo a procedure often referred to as female circumcision; there are many reasons why a woman would choose to have this be done as well as many more women who go through this malicious process against their will.

Female genital mutilation is called by a variety of different names. A couple of them include female circumcision and female cutting. Female circumcision is used in reference to female circumcision being the male circumcision's counterpart. However, this is undoubtedly not the case. Female cutting is the most simplistic name given; it only regards the procedure as "cutting." Female genital mutilation came along some years later with the intention of drawing attention to the horrid nature of the procedure (Source

There are several different types of female circumcision. Mainly the types vary by severity of degree to which they are performed. Type I includes the "removal of the clitoral hood with or without removal of part or all of the clitoris" (Source

Type 1

Excision (removal) of the clitoral hood with or without removal of part or all of the clitoris.

Type 2

Removal of the clitoris together with part or all of the labia minora.

Type 3 (infibulation)

Removal of part or all of the external genitalia (clitoris, labia minora, and labia majora) and stitching and/or narrowing of the vaginal opening leaving a small hole for urine and menstrual flow.

Type 4 (unclassified)

All other operations on the female genitalia, including:

Pricking, piercing, stretching, or incision of the clitoris and/or labia;

Cauterization by burning the clitoris and surrounding tissues;

Incisions to the vaginal wall;