Four months old… prominent imam …. Certain words jump out at you, don’t they?

Or maybe they don’t. Amazingly few people know about, much less care about, the global grotesquerie of FGM.

The Doctor is IN! And your capacity to experience even a twinge of sexual pleasure is out.

Dude actually advertises that he performs “female circumcision.” This ain’t no peasant woman with a rusty knife in some forest clearing – this is an actual MD with a pleasant office and the whole nine… er … centimeters…

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Update.

I mean, Alice in Wonderland if three-year-old Alice were bound with rope and had her clitoris amputated.

’Justice Nagarathna asked [the advocate for the practice] what the objective of this practice was.

“To increase the sexual pleasure of women,” [the advocate] replied.

Justice Amanullah immediately interjected … and said, “It is just the opposite.”’

Sierra Leone’s First Lady says YES!!! to clit-stripping. Almost every little girl in that country is held down and castrated by village butchers and Jabbe-Bio couldn’t be more proud.

India’s Dawoodi Bohra community is wild about clit-stripping, and won’t stop with the dirty knife thing until authorities can put their leaders in jail.

The question of what to do with this cult’s enthusiasm is finally before the Supreme Court in New Delhi, which will determine if, as the DB argues, cutting off babies’ clitorises is “essential to our religion.”

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Quite a religion.

I mean, far out.

A sad reminder, on Women’s Day, of the enormity of this problem. I’ve followed global efforts to end it, and I must say we’re getting nowhere.

https://iwpr.net/global-voices/tanzania-inside-trade-body-parts-driving-fgm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA&list=RDUfZWp-hGCdA&start_radio=1

Fatma, don’t lose that pussy!
Its market price is hot
Send it off to a trader
They pay a lot

Fatma don’t lose that pussy
That you cut with a dirty knife
It’ll make a magic potion
And a bloodied clitless wife

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Shouldn’t the mutilated women, children, and babies get - as it were - a cut?  The scheme seems a mite unfair.  They after all are supplying the raw materials.  

Gambia can’t wait to bring back FGM.

For few, read tens of millions of course… The indispensable Kathleen Stock scathes through the now-notorious defense of FGM in a once-respectable British journal…

[A]nti-FGM laws allegedly cause “oversurveillance of ethnic and racialised families and girls” and undermine “social trust, community life and human rights”. All these things, it is implied, are flat wrong. This sounds like old-fashioned morality talk to me. But then again, if old-fashioned morality talk is permissible, may not we also talk explicitly about the wrongs of holding small girls down to tables and slicing off bits of them, or sewing them up so tight that they are in searing agony? These things sound like they might undermine “social trust, community life, and human rights” too.

Believe it, baby. Believe it. The world is full of people who praise god when parents shear off their newborns’ clitorises and sew shut their labia.

What’s hard to believe is that a British medical journal published a bunch of these people. A King’s College London professor writes:

 “I previously lived & did research in West Africa, working for an NGO that tackled female genital cutting. The British Medical Journal has published a ‘puff piece’ promoting FGC, saying it’s perfectly fine for the community (not the individual) to control her body.

“The article blames Western media for causing harm by wanting to tackle FGC. Nowhere does it mention that this is intended to reduce pleasure and maintain patriarchal control. Publishing this, academia is really digging its own grave.”

British academia digging its own grave by caving to moral degenerates is, you know, just what British academia does. God forbid we should intervene in its beautiful folkways.

A lot of Liberians like cutting off clitorises, and they don’t appreciate it when people try to stop them. It is good and great to castrate female babies, and if you disagree with this you’re going to hear from a lot of disgruntled people who are happy to point out that Liberian culture founds itself on bloody disfigurement.

Beyond disgusting.

An article about the emergent scandal of medicalized FGM is much too coy: The point of the procedure is to assure that, their whole lives long, the women of Africa and Asia (230 million of them are currently walking around without sex organs) are guaranteed never to have even a teeny weeny blip of sexual pleasure. Total erotic numbness is the prescription, which your local doctor will happily fill for you. You can talk morals, virginity, the community, all you like. It ain’t none of that, really. It’s the amputation of the clitoris, and with it the death of erotic sensation forever. Some docs will sew your vagina shut too, just for good measure.

Until you understand that for hundreds of millions of human beings around the globe the thought of their daughters having the capacity to experience sexual pleasure is such an atrocity that they’d rather rip out their genitalia than run that risk, you’ll never get anywhere with this vile behavior. It really is there that you have to work: Just as public disgust with smoking decreased its prevalence, so disgust with violent hatred of female sexuality must be publicly expressed.

… here.

Triumphal sadism as a way of life. Hard to know how you do anything about that.

‘It is a thing of pride and recognition … [G]irls who are mutilated have become women.‘

Or, you know, babies who are mutilated have become corpses.