Female genital mutilation (sometimes referred to as female circumcision) refers to procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The practice is illegal in the UK.
It has been estimated that over 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK each year, and that 66,000 women in the UK are living with the consequences of FGM. However, the true extent is unknown, due to the "hidden" nature of the crime.


If ye think all these acts are carried out by 'family members' then think again.

You know...places where it goes on.

Like the UK. Something you still seem to have a problem understanding. Mind you, as you said earlier, "They're all illiterate" you obviously think that if they are literate (like in the UK) that it's quite acceptable?

Naysayer.  You just don't want to accept it is going on and trying to play it down to defend your favourite religion.

who was it said about men would do evil while others stood idly by  or something like that - you are one of them trying to pour oil on troubled waters.  It's sickening.

diversion

Naysayer unable to respond - but then I don't expect anything else from him.

what is fgm?

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a horrific act, agreed by all the major global humanitarian and legal organisations, and by many nations, to be a gross violation of human rights.  But still it continues, perpetrated often on small girls and young women under barbaric conditions.   What follows is an attempt to describe and ‘explain’ this act.   Possible consequences for those who have it are also listed.


FGM may be an early marker of belonging to a particular group, perhaps carried out when the child is only a few days or weeks old. (Similarly, ex-pat groups may adopt it as a way of indicating difference from their host community.)
In some communities FGM is seen as a rite of passage, an initiation to adulthood, occurring as the girl approaches puberty and ‘becomes a woman’.
FGM is sometimes required to ‘preserve’ family ‘honour’.
It may be done in order to ‘cleanse’ a girl, in the belief that it is more hygienic and will stop unpleasant genital secretions and odours as the child develops to maturity.
FGM may be deemed a beautifying procedure, to remove ‘masculine’ aspects of a girl’s or woman’s body.
Some communities believe men’s sexual pleasure will be enhanced by FGM.
Excision of the clitoris may be believed to ensure women will not be like men in regard to sexual appetite or aggression.
Fear of the clitoris may be a factor, with the belief that it must be excised because otherwise it will grow into a ‘third leg’ (c.f. a penis, only perhaps longer), and / or will cause the girl discomfort when she becomes a woman.
Fear of the clitoris, and its consequent excision, is also a rationale in communities which believe a man – or baby – will die if they come into contact with it during intercourse or birth.
Excision of the clitoris is believed to reduce a woman’s sexual pleasure or desire, thus reducing the likelihood that she will become sexually active with anyone other than her husband.
And, often in addition to any or all of these convictions, FGM is a way to ensure that a girl or woman is ‘pure’; she may be sewn up almost completely as she approaches puberty, when she reaches marriageable age, or even after each birth, so that sexual intimacy is almost impossible unless on her husband’s say-so.

Types of female genital mutilation

Type I:

~ partial or total removal of the clitoris and/or the prepuce (clitoridectomy).

Subgroups:

type Ia – removal of the clitoral hood or prepuce only;

type Ib – removal of the clitoris with the prepuce.

Type II:

~ partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (excision).

Subgroups:

type IIa – removal of the labia minora only;

type IIb – partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia minora;

type IIc – partial or total removal of the clitoris, labia minora and labia majora.

Type III:

~ narrowing of the vaginal orifice with creation of a covering seal by cutting and appositioning the labia minora and/or the labia majora, with or without excision of the clitoris (infibulation).

Subgroups:

type IIIa – removal and apposition of the labia minora;

type IIIb – removal and apposition of the labia majora.

Reinfibulation is covered under this definition. This is a procedure to recreate an infibulation, for example after childbirth when defibulation is necessary.

Type IV:

~ unclassified – all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for nonmedical

purposes, for example, pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterization

Alleged22. You can't write stuff like that on here! Mobo will accuse you of being a pervert! 

I saw a programme on it the other night...FDGM, Sub-Saharan Africa.  It was absolutely toe-curling!! 

its just another form of ownership.

So, do you acknowledge that they might know best what works in THEIR world, and what doesn't?

You have made it all up alleged I know you have!!!!!!!!!!!

More than 1,000 women and girls have been treated by the NHS in England for female genital mutilation in three months this year, according to figures that reveal the extent of the practice in the UK.

Between April and June, there were 1,026 newly recorded cases of FGM in England, latest figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show. Among the cases, there were nine girls under the age of 18.

Since the HSCIC started to record FGM data in September 2014, there have been 4,989 cases reported nationally. In the most recent tranche of data, 60 NHS trusts out of a total of 160 submitted data for one or more FGM attendances.

There is likely to be a spike in the number in the next recording period after recording FGM attendance became mandatory for acute trusts on 1 June 2015, and becomes mandatory for GP practices and mental health trusts from 1 October. Only one GP provided data for April to June.



The HSCIC found that, in 75% of newly recorded cases, women and girls themselves reported that they had suffered FGM, rather than it being reported by someone else. Among those who went to the NHS, 43 had undergone deinfibulation, or “reversal”, where the vagina is reopened after a large part of it has been sewn shut, in the most extreme form of mutilation.

Tackling FGM has risen up the political agenda since last year, after high-profile campaigns and international gatherings attracted public support. A Guardian petition saw the Department for Education write to schools about the dangers of FGM, while steps have been taken by the Department of Health and the Home Office to ensure cases are recorded and victims receive more support.

The new figures exposed the shocking extent of FGM in the UK, said Tanya Barron, CEO of global children’s charity Plan UK, which campaigns against FGM.

“We’ve seen hugely increased attention on this problem in the past few years and we are now waking up to the scale of this terrible practice,” she said.


“What we must always keep in mind, though, is that this is not specifically a British problem. FGM is a practice with an inherently global dimension. And while it’s vital that we do everything we can to stop FGM here in the UK, as well as to support the girls and women affected by it, the reality is that this practice won’t end in the UK until it is ended worldwide.”

these figures are going to rise and rise as more and more economic migrants arrive.

dont mention immigration you will be called an islamaphobe or a racist or both haha

Hooooof

Can you bet on b/f in the United States???????

If it is against the law?

Why is it not annulled

she has actually been trying to do that
at the last meet the judge(?)  never turned up

I wish you took notice of what was said etc

why are muslim men so afraid of women??  They can't even shake hands with them in many circumstances ha ha fkn ha ha  and as for riding bicycles  - don't start me off

I agree with them there Mobo

I am against fgm of course

But I see a problem here, you see women's role is to be wives and mothers

Neither do you recognise how much women have harmed Western society..because they are not the same as men

As a socialist I believe women are entitled to be treated fairly and have as many of their aspirations met as possible

But I do not believe they should ever be given power over men, a few exceptions to the rule do not change this

We are making a terrible mistake here

I don't tell women what to do.....but have you ever observed or listened to women properly, most of their is about husbands and babies

We listen to the wrong women that is our problem