The Female Genital Mutilation

williamjames20 (44)Memberin HeartSTEM • 4 years ago

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Hi steemians.How are you all doing? Happy Sunday and a wonderful new month to you all. Hope you all are having a great day? Well, I will like to let you know about a very interesting and amazing topic which is female genital mutilation.

INTRODUCTION

Female genital mutilation also known as female circumcision describes the practices that involve the removal of external genital organs in girls and women. The action is performed performed using a blade or glass and it is usually performed by a medical professional who is trained to carry out such operations or a religious leader. It can also be carried out by an elder in a village. In some severe cases, the labia is removed and the vulva is joined together which places the victim's life at risk. Before I continue, I will like to define the following key words in the concept. As we have 'female','genital' and'mutilation'.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

FEMALE

A female is someone belonging to the feminine sex that produces eggs.

GENITAL

Genital deals with sex or reproductive organs.

MUTILATION

Mutilation is the action of repositioning or injuring an organ by cutting off a part.

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In contrast to male circumcision, the procedure produces no human health benefit and it is not performed for medical reasons. FGM is known world wide as a procedure or action that violates human right as well as a challenge to human health especially females who have reached marriage age. Can you imagine a situation whereby someone after undergoing the pain of cutting off part of her body with the notion of reducing her sexual urge and when it is time for her to reproduce she will start having complications which makes the action look bad and illegal. It sounds abnormal but it is still practiced in this world mostly in developing countries which is done to prepare their girls for marriage and adulthood with the believe (archaic to be precise) that it maintains girl's chastity (abstinence from sexual intercourse), preserves fertility, improves hygiene and enhance sexual pleasure for the opposite sex without knowing that all these can be perfectly achieved without mutilation.

TYPES OF FGM

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There are four types of FGM, they're;

TYPE1:

This is also known as clitoridectomy involves the total removal of the clitoris.

TYPE11:

This is regarded as excision, is the partial or total removal of the labia minora.

TYPE111:

Is also known as infibulation involves the narrowing of the vaginal opening by sealing th e region between the genital area and anus through cutting and change of position.

TYPE1V:

This involves all other harmful actions carried out without medical purpose to the female genital which includes cutting, herbal treatments that harm the girls body.

BASIC EFFECTS OF FGM

There are many consequences and complications associated with FGM but I will like to discuss two. Below are the basic two shallow but intrinsically explained. They are;

INFECTION

The person can easily get infected if the action was carried out with unsterile equipments, no antiseptic and antibiotics.

DEATH

Mortality risk increases because of the limited health care available in low income economies. Death can also result from lack of treatment of long term infections.

Finally, FGM as it is now is associated with medical, cultural and economic consequences which has made some countries to come up with the motive of bringing it to a stop. This can be achieved through proper redirection of the available resources.

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