The international community must compromise. Those opposed to female circumcision must recognize that the practice is a type of religious and cultural belief. Meanwhile, participants of female circumcision must become more informed about the procedure’s health risks and possible alternatives to the extreme forms of the practice.

Female circumcision is practiced in Africa to this day. Women seem to accept female circumcicision’s religious origins without question. Some Christian groups promote traditional customs and support female circumcision as a link to Africa’s past. Many people in female circumcision practicing societies, especially traditional rural communities, regard female circumcision as absolutely normal, and they cannot imagine a woman who has not undergone mutilation. Others are quoted as saying that only outsiders or foreigners are not genitally mutilated. A

Although female circumcision is a traditional practice worldwide (performed in countries such as; Bahrain, Oman, Indonesia, Malaysia, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia, Ivory, Niger, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Kenya, Ethiopia, Gambia, etc.) It is particularly prevalent in Africa, where circumcision occurs in approximately twenty-six countries and affects an estimated 80 to 110 million women.

Patriarchy is defined as “a structure that constrains agency and determines behavior,” a better explanation would be, “a society in which women are restrained by men from advancing in society.” Many assume that female circumcision is practiced in Africa to prove man’s masculinity by achieving the difficult act of penetrating a circumcised woman.

The Western world and notable Western feminists argue that female circumcision was introduced and continues to be practiced in Africa to promote patriarchy and to control women’s sexuality.

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