The Sunday NY Times Magazine has another article today on FGM, this time in Indonesia, where females who have been subjected to FGM are [ " . . . a quiet majority in Indonesia, where, according to a 2003 study by the Population Council, an international research group, 96 percent of families surveyed reported that their daughters had undergone some form of circumcision by the time they reached 14." ]
The procedures are performed everywhere, including the schools. The reasons for it?
[ According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.
“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.” ]
Can anyone enlighten me as to just wtf "it will balance her psychology” means?
[ Female circumcision in Indonesia is reported to be less extreme than the kind practiced in other parts of the globe — Africa, particularly. Worldwide, female genital cutting affects up to 140 million women and girls in varying degrees of severity, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. The most common form of female genital cutting, representing about 80 percent of cases around the world, includes the excision of the clitoris and the labia minora. A more extreme version of the practice, known as Pharaonic circumcision or infibulation, accounts for 15 percent of cases globally and involves the removal of all external genitalia and a stitching up of the vaginal opening. ]
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Humans are really something, aren't they? I find it so odd that they think they are special when they are meaner than animals.
this is completely sick
This where freedom of religion has to stop.
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