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♠Female Genital Mutilation In India♠
Written by- pavan5438

Every flower which blooms is plucked. Every flower is let to bloom just to be plucked.

WOMEN, have always been subjected to constant suffering. May it be patriarchy or may it be sexual harassment, they undergo psychological stress everyday and it is to such an extent that those sufferings have become a part of their life. Especially in our Indian society where mensuration is considered as impure, an exposing bra strap is thought to be against the cultural norm, a woman embracing her sexuality is considered as a sin.

An Indian woman is caged behind the bars of religion and its insensitive traditions. While, one religion bounds women with cultural stereotypes another religion performs the so-called purity acts of brutality in the name of tradition.

Female Genital Mutilation is one such tradition…

BLED THROUGH AGES 

FGM is basically an unethical and a non-clinical method of removing or partial nicking of clitoris and other external female genitalia which is mainly operated with non-surgical tools. The type of procedure and age at which girls are operated varies from each culture, but mainly it is done before the age of 15. There is a another type of procedure called infibulation. This comes under the type III of FGM in which vulva is sewed together with just a urethral opening for urinal excretion and menstrual flow. The legs are bound together for 2-4 weeks so that the wound heals. Only after the marriage the vagina is reopened by the husband and further opened during the parturition of an offspring, later the vagina is again stitched back once and for all.
                                                               
 She stood watering a rose plant in the backyard. She had always wanted one but her grandmother wouldn’t allow, anyhow she convinced her grandmother to have a rose plant. She found herself attracted towards the flower for no reason. However, she never plucked any, all she did was watering the plant. Her grandmother took the responsibility of plucking the flower.

Africa is known for its versatile culture which holds traditions from sacred ones such as “The Healing Dance of The San” to most brutal ones such as “Breast Ironing”. FGM is not an exception. It is said that the early Egyptians circumcised male and female in their fourteenth year as they considered this particular age as the right time for the marriage. This procedure is done mainly to control a girl’s sexual desires before marriage.

FGM, got seen as a helping hand during the period of slavery, where genital mutilated young women were demanded by the “Masters”, as that would make them loyal slaves who would sweat hard without any distractions of personal desires.

Sooner or later gynecologists of Europe and United States started removing clitoris as a treatment for masturbation. They thought masturbation was an act of insanity and it was nothing but an itching sensation down the clitoris which made women to masturbate. An English gynecologist named Isaac Baker Brown went on to remove the clitoris of women with an ideology that it can cure hysteria, epilepsy and certain forms of insanity, later he was expelled from a certain medical society for his brutality.
  
A woman in her mid-twenties walked up to a girl, who was standing in front of the mirror and admiring herself with a graceful smile which dented her cheeks with a dimple.
‘do you want to grab some chocolates from the store?’ asked the girl’s mother.

Shockingly, the world had already adopted this procedure and started to oppress women in the name of tradition. Until the 20th century, it was never spoken about and suddenly out of nowhere the word spread across the globe. It received with criticism and anger; people came out opposing such acts and yet it didn’t stop there. It is estimated that more than 200 million women around the globe have undergone FGM and at least 3 million girls at risk of undergoing FGM every year.