Muslim girls pussy stitching

She just thought it was how unmarried girls who had never had sex 'looked'. Then she saw a picture of a woman who had been circumcised - her clitoris cut out, her labia cut off and her vagina sewn up - and knew, in that moment, she had been mutilated. Scroll down for video. Shock: Mariam is one of the millions of girls and women in Mali to undergo FGM - but it happened when she was a baby.

Female genital mutilation FGM , also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision , [a] is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, FGM is conducted from days after birth to puberty and beyond. In half the countries for which national figures are available, most girls are cut before the age of five. They include removal of the clitoral hood and clitoral glans ; removal of the inner labia ; and removal of the inner and outer labia and closure of the vulva. In this last procedure, known as infibulation , a small hole is left for the passage of urine and menstrual fluid ; the vagina is opened for intercourse and opened further for childbirth.

The most severe form is infibulation, also known as pharaonic circumcision. The procedure consists of clitoridectomy where all, or part of, the clitoris is removed , excision removal of all, or part of, the labia minora , and cutting of the labia majora to create raw surfaces, which are then stitched or held together in order to form a cover over the vagina when they heal. A small hole is left to allow urine and menstrual blood to escape.

Although some consider it a human rights infringement, others view it as an integral part of cultures in which it remained unchallenged for centuries. There are significant medical sequelae and public health ramifications of female circumcision; therefore most U. However, although there is ample media and political attention to this volatile issue, there is a relative dearth of practical, clinical information available to providers who care for circumcised women and their families.