Female Circumcision's Unknown Appearance in America
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Hemorrhage.
By methods of cutting and ripping with knifes, thorns, glass shards.
And the name? Female circumcision, genital mutilation, or simply torture.
For many, there is nothing that they can do to stop it.
The reasons for this are to promote chastity, to enhance male sexual pleasure and, in some places, because the female genitalia are considered unclean and ugly.
Less known is the appearance of this phenomenon across the Western world.
In France, an immigrant family had their daughter undergo this surgery.
There have been many stories of refugees seeking asylum for themselves or their daughters in order to avoid this surgery.
Names have been suppressed for privacy.
Many argue that female genital mutilation is the same as male circumcision and is a cultural heritage, a right.
While some people claim that it is part of their religion, particularly in countries where Islam is the predominant religion, ironically, the Koran makes no mention of the necessity of this procedure.
Organizations such as WHO and UNICEF believe that the only way for this atrocity to cease is to spread awareness.
As knowledge about this practice spreads, explanations for its existence begin to appear, such as the poverty and the lack of power that women have in these particular locales.
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