graphic image against FGM

[niyad]

[cleanhippie]

1. Uhm, okay?

[undeterred]

2. Nobody cares about things that do not directly affect themselves.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024211009

[niyad]

11. thank you fro linking to that article. boookmarked for later use.

[In_The_Wind]

3. That really is horrible.

[TeeYiYi]

4. What's FGM?...

The first rule of acronyms (in publishing) is that the first usage on the page be spelled out.

I'm usually a pretty good guesser but this one has me stumped... Fox General Management? Fart Gas Mask?...

TYY

[countryjake]

5. Female Genital Mutilation

Forced Genital Mutilation?

Something of that nature, which is why the knife is pictured. Tho, some little girls are not so lucky as to have a sharp knife used when they are mutilated, any old filthy cutting object might be used.

[niyad]

7. Female Genital Mutilation

you forgot the sarcasm thingy, yes?

[TeeYiYi]

8. Actually, no...

I wish I could say it was sarcasm, especially now that I know what it means. Without any frame of reference, I didn't have a clue.

Thanks niyad.

TYY

[niyad]

15. you are welcome

[PowerToThePeople]

6. I started to google FGM

But, my brain finally put it all together. It is not something that occurs in this country. Out of sight, out of mind. Violence against others should be stood up to always.

Rec.

[niyad]

10. you would be wrong about it not occuring in this country:

. . . .


Europe and the United States

Isaac Baker Brown "set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so."[119]

Gynaecologists in 19th-century Europe and the United States would also remove the clitoris for various reasons, including to treat masturbation, believing that the latter caused physical and mental disorders.[120] The first reported clitoridectomy in the West was carried out in 1822 by Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787–1840), a surgeon in Berlin, on a teenage girl regarded as an "imbecile" who was masturbating.[121]

Isaac Baker Brown (1812–1873), an English gynaecologist, president of the Medical Society of London, and co-founder of St. Mary's Hospital in London, believed that the "unnatural irritation" of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria and mania, and "set to work to remove [it] whenever he had the opportunity of doing so," according to his obituary in the Medical Times and Gazette.[119] He did this several times between 1859 and 1866, sometimes with removal of the inner labia too.[122] When he published his views in a book, On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females (1866), doctors in London accused him of quackery, mutilation and operating without consent, and he died in poverty after being expelled from the Obstetrical Society the following year.[123]

In the United States J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), regarded as the father of gynaecology – controversially so because of his experimental surgery on slaves – followed Brown's work, and in 1862 slit the neck of a woman's uterus and amputated her clitoris, "for the relief of the nervous or hysterical condition as recommended by Baker Brown," after she complained of period pain, convulsions and bladder problems.[124] Sources differ as to when the last clitoridectomy was performed in the United States. G. J. Barker-Benfield writes that it continued until at least 1904 and perhaps into the 1920s.[125] A 1985 paper in the Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey said it was performed into the 1960s to treat hysteria, erotomania and lesbianism.

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Khalid Adem, who emigrated from Ethiopia to Atlanta, Georgia, became the first person in the US to be convicted in an FGM case; he was sentenced to ten years in 2006 for having severed his two-year-old daughter's clitoris with a pair of scissors.[175]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation





Female genital mutilation on the rise in the United States-report
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:19 PM
Author: Lisa Anderson


NEW YORK (TrustLaw) - The ancient, brutal practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), once considered primarily a problem of the developing world, is a growing threat to girls and women in the United States, according to a new report.

The United States has longstanding laws against the practice of FGM on U.S. soil and in January, passed a federal law against sending young women outside the country for so-called "vacation cutting". However, girls living in America increasingly are at risk of the procedure both at home and abroad, according to research by Sanctuary for Families.
The New York City-based non-profit organisation, which specialises in gender-based violence, said up to 200,000 girls and women in the United States are at risk of FGM and that the number is growing.

"People in the United States think that FGM only happens to people outside of the United States, but in all actuality, people here all over the country have been through FGM," said Jaha, 23, formerly from Gambia and now a survivor and advocate against FGM.
"Kids that were born in this country are taken back home every summer and undergo this procedure," she was quoted as saying in the report.

The study cited analysis of data from the 2000 census that found between 1990 and 2000 the number of girls and women in the United States at risk of the procedure - which involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia - increased by 35 percent.
. . . .
The report said FGM has been performed in the United States by health care providers who support FGM or do not want to question families' cultural practices.
. . .

http://www.trust.org/item/?map=female-genital-mutilation-on-the-rise-in-the-united-states-report

[PowerToThePeople]

12. thank you

very informative.

[niyad]

14. google "female genital mutilation in usa"--that was just a small piece of the information.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. No, but MGM does...

both are disgusting. K&R.

[niyad]

24. right on schedule. sorry, you are incorrect. please see post 10.

apparently there are some medical benefits in some cases for male circumcision (see description below). but then, they don't amputate the penis or remove the scrotum to keep men pure, either. there are NO medical benefits to female genital mutilation, the sole purpose is to control female sexuality.


Male circumcision (from Latin circumcidere, meaning "to cut around&quot [1] is the surgical removal of the foreskin (prepuce) from the human penis.[2][3][4] In a typical procedure, the foreskin is opened and then separated from the glans after inspection. The circumcision device (if used) is placed, and then the foreskin is removed. Topical or locally injected anesthesia may be used to reduce pain and physiologic stress.[5] For adults, general anesthesia is an option, and the procedure is often performed without a specialized circumcision device. The procedure is most often elected for religious reasons or personal preferences,[1] but may be indicated for both therapeutic and prophylactic reasons. It is a treatment option for pathological phimosis, refractory balanoposthitis and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs);[2][6] it is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health.[3][6]

The positions of the world's major medical organizations range from considering neonatal circumcision as having a modest health benefit that outweighs small risks to viewing it as having no benefit and significant risks. No major medical organization recommends either universal circumcision for all infant males (aside from the recommendations of the World Health Organization for parts of Africa), or banning the procedure.[7] Ethical and legal questions regarding informed consent and autonomy have been raised over non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision.[8][9]

A 2009 Cochrane meta-analysis of studies done on sexually active men in Africa found that circumcision reduces the infection rate of HIV among heterosexual men by 38–66% over a period of 24 months.[10] The WHO recommends considering circumcision as part of a comprehensive HIV program in areas with high endemic rates of HIV, such as sub-Saharan Africa,[11][12] where studies have concluded it is cost-effective against HIV.[11] Circumcision reduces the incidence of HSV-2 infections by 28%,[13] and is associated with reduced oncogenic HPV prevalence[14] and a reduced risk of both UTIs and penile cancer,[5] but routine circumcision is not justified for the prevention of those conditions.[2][15] Studies of its protective effects against other sexually transmitted infections have been inconclusive. A 2010 review of literature worldwide found circumcisions performed by medical providers to have a median complication rate of 1.5% for newborns and 6% for older children, with few severe complications.[16] Bleeding, infection and the removal of either too much or too little foreskin are the most common complications cited.[16][17]

********Circumcision does not appear to have a negative impact on sexual function.*******

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. du rec - I urge everyone to see this movie: Desert Flower

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM).

more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054580/

[niyad]

13. thank you for posting this

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. It makes the statisitics personal. I thought it was well made film. You're welcome.

[niyad]

18. . . .

[niyad]

19. . . .

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Unfortunately, there are people on DU who will defend it under "cultural tolerance"

while simultaneously having a shitfit over the fact that our culture allows pictures of naked women on the intertubez.

[seveneyes]

21. What group or persons are performing this terrible procedure?

There must be some means to put an end to it.

[niyad]

22. did you have a chance to read the information in posts 9 and 10? should answer some of your

questions.

[niyad]

23. . . .