FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Each year 4-5 million girls have parts of their external genitals surgically removed in ceremonies intended to welcome and honor young girls into their communities or into womanhood. About 80 million women have had this surgery. It is said to promote chastity, religion, group identity, cleanliness, health, family values, and marriage goals. Female circumcision is really practiced in cultures of many countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Chad, Gambia, Nigeria, Egypt. This is a genital mutilation because of the many ways it is performed in almost every case. Usually these ritua...