Female circumcision, commonly known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is practiced in over 30 countries in the world. The procedure first appeared in the countries of Africa. Among the Samburu tribe of Kenya, girls are generally circumcised at the age of 14 or 15, usually just before they get married. It is estimated that 90% or more of the girls in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and North Sudan have been mutilated. There are over 30 million women living in Nigeria that have been mutilated and 24 million in Ethiopia. The estimating of women who have gone through FGM has totaled up to about

The most controversial part of FGM is the many reasons as to why this practice is done to so many women because it hardly makes any sense. The first reason for FGM is that it makes the woman more beautiful facially and in between the legs. Men feel as if the clitoris looks like a penis and makes a woman less feminine until it is removed. One contradictory reason is so that women will not be able to have babies. Yet if they do, it is a problem because it might kill anyone birthing babies and it turns the breast milk into poison. A health reason that has not yet been proven is that it can cause vaginal cancer. The clitoris is understood to make the woman unclean and that she should not handle food or water. Out of the two most popular reasons, the second one is that so old men can marry young girls without having to worry about satisfying them sexually. The number one popular reason is so that the woman’s desire to have sex is reduced making her less likely to cheat, masturbate, or become a lesbian. This is the most important reason for the cultures that practice infibulation

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