FGM conviction: about goddamn time

Ste7en

Bloody big pair of scissors you'll need though

Circumcision - Religious (I suppose) and medical reasons
FMG - Just wrong on so many levels

Trollslayer

Circumcision is too often done by people with no medical training and sometimes no idea of sterile procedures.

lucasisking

This is from Aayan Hirsi Ali's uplifting but harrowing autobiography Infidel, when she recounts the procedure done to her and her sister Haweya (who never recovered psychologically):

"two other women held my legs apart.  The man, who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan, picked up a pair of scissors.  With the other hand, he caught hold of the place between my legs and started tweaking it, like Grandma milking a goat. "There it is, there is the kintir", one of the women said.
Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my inner labia and clitoris.  I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat.  A piercing pain shot up between my legs, indescribable, and I howled. The came the sewing: a long blunt needle clumsily pushing into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and anguished protests, Grandma's words of comfort and encouragement. "It's just this once in your life, Aayan.  Be brave, he's almost finished." When the sewing was finished, the man cut of the thread with his teeth.
That's all I can recall of it.
But I do remember Haweya's bloodcurdling howls.  Though she was the youngest- she was four, I five, Mahad six- Haweya must have struggled much more than I did, because the man made some bad cuts on Haweya's thighs.  She carried the scars of them her whole life."

Their suffering continued for weeks and Haweya had to be re-sewn.  Both caught infections and suffered excruciating pain while urinating.  

Later she describes her first sexual experience on her wedding night (lucky girl).

"It wasn't rape.  I wanted to have sex with Mahmud- just not this way. He gasped and shoved and sweated with the effort of forcing open my scar. It was horribly painful and took so long. I gritted my teeth and endured the pain until I became numb.  Afterward Mahmud fell heavily asleep, and I went and washed again in the hideous bathroom.  In every respect my wedding night had turned out exactly as [her friend] had described hers".

Sonic67

I never knew this was even a thing.

Breast ironing awareness 'needed in school'

Girls breasts are "ironed" to prevent them growing so men won't want sex with them.

Trollslayer

rustybin

Think of a way a woman can be subjegated, and you can bet your life it's happening somewhere in the world in the name of culture or religion. Or just because some people are broken.

robel

What the AF??

EarthRod

I didn't know about this.

With flat breasts how can a woman feed her newborn baby?

robel

What the fudge is all this???

“The practice involves ironing a girl's chest with hot objects to delay breasts from growing, so she does not attract male attention.”

It is 2019, isnt it?????

Sonic67

Breast ironing - Wikipedia

However, medical experts warn that it might contribute toward breast cancer, cysts and depression,[4] and perhaps interfere with breastfeeding later.[12] Other possible side-effects reported by GIZ include breast infections, the formation of abscesses, malformed breasts and the eradication of one or both breasts. The practice ranges dramatically in its severity, from using heated leaves to press and massage the breasts, to using a scalding grinding stone to crush the budding gland.