The Assignment on Female Circumcision

Running Head: FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
Female Circumcision
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Female Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue or an issue of the cultural relativism
The discussion on the female circumcision measures has been put forward by the various
feminist groups and the women activists all across the globe. The human rights activists and the
medical practitioners with the various religious and the political organizations have raised their
voices in the various instances against the age old traditional custom. The anthropologist along
with the various other activists and the social groups have always tried to rest their belief on the
that the different individuals must always look forward for the various shock values in order to
listen to the various unheard people who have always valued the path of the female circumcision
measures. It is only at this particular point of time that the different people will understand the
various connotations of the cultural meetings and the integration perspective behind the female
circumcision measures that will be influenced by the opinions of the individuals which is rooted
in the basic premise of the cultural imperialism practices around the world.
The origin of the concept and the idea of the female circumcision measures has however
remained vague and unclear from its very inception that is more than 3000 years old. The
practice of the female circumcision measures has been the most prominent practice in the regions
around Africa and also in some areas around the Arabian Peninsula, Malaysia and the region of
Indonesia. The World Health Organization in this respect has however projected its estimates
roughly around 13 million women across the globe who have experienced the practice of the
female circumcision practice whether directly or indirectly. The practice was also prominent in
the early 1990s at that time when clitoridectomies were practiced in the particular regions
practiced in the Western European Regions and the regions around the United States that will
provide the various aspects right from the practice of masturbation that was reduced to the

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practice of the rigidity and the other immigrants who have reintroduced the technique of the
female circumcision mainly in the nations of the West.
The practice of the female circumcision technique will involve the removal practices or
the alteration of the various parts of the external genitalia and the associated parts of the female
body that will involve the removal of the clitoral prepuce that will involve the whole process of
the circumcision that will also involve the process of the removal of the clitoridectomy part from
the female body. This has been till now the most massive procedure that was performed in some
of the particular cultures that may not be circumcised till the women got married. The question
of the female circumcision measures definitely give rise to the controversies and the questions of
the validity of the human rights and the various other human rights issues. The practice
associated with itself the emergence of the practices of terror and the unbearable pain that also
led to the physical problems among the women at times.
The unending series of the cutting and the stitching practices that was exercised on the
body of the women will often result in the built up of the scar tissues and the other complications
at the time of giving birth to the babies. These associated health risks have dated back to the time
of the British Colonialism that have been often not supported by the experiences for those
women who are under the practice of the circumcision measures. The lack of the anesthetic
measures during the entire procedure has left the women terrified with the initiation process that
restricts the honor provided to the women in the society. The loss of the clitons could reduce the
sexual pleasure level of the women and will lead to the desire of the infibulation measures that
refers to the fact that the woman will be sewn up to the unfaithful and the uncertain stage of the
virginity level. The different religious beliefs and the doctrines will underlie certain reasons