Removal of clitoris media

Back to Health A to Z. Female genital mutilation FGM is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, but there's no medical reason for this to be done. It's also known as female circumcision or cutting, and by other terms, such as sunna, gudniin, halalays, tahur, megrez and khitan, among others. All women and girls have the right to control what happens to their bodies and the right to say no to FGM.

I am a Muslim girl and I shouldn't be wondering this but I can't help it. In my country, when a girl is born they perform clitoridectomy where the clit is partially removed. I asked my mother why they do that and she said it's so that the girl won't orgasm easily so they won't turn into "bad" girls. I'm really upset by this because I thought after I get married I would get to experience the kind of feelings the characters from those erotic books feel another thing I shouldn't be doing is reading erotica. I'm not very religious so I don't feel much guilt about all this. There's barely any sex ed in schools here and it's natural to be curious.

The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers, who often play other central roles in communities, such as attending childbirths. In many settings, health care providers perform FGM due to the erroneous belief that the procedure is safer when medicalized 1. WHO strongly urges health professionals not to perform such procedures. FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.

Since it has been illegal to perform FGM in the UK, but despite more than , thought to be at risk, only one doctor has been prosecuted — and he was found not guilty because he had been helping a woman, who had already been mutilated, to give birth. But as Pat Caplan noted in a previous piece on The Conversation , our own modern pursuit of cosmetic genital surgery appears to go unnoticed. There is also some precedent in Victorian times, when FGM was also performed in the UK and the US, though it was certainly never a staple of surgical practice.