1. Female Circumcision
In The Science, Rogaia Mustafa Abushard explains female circumcision, a ritual performed in Africa and parts of Asia. The immortalizing ritual of genital mutation is a tradition of many cultures. An untrained, uneducated midwife with unsanititized equipment does the agonizing procedure. The clitoris is cut off without anesthesia and the outer lips of the vagina are sewed together. After the operation the girls legs are tied together for weeks so the skin can grow over the flesh. The young girls are between the ages of four to eleven. This purifies the girls and it gives them status in the comm...
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