An article posted in the New York Times on October 15th, 2011 tells the story of Aissatou Kande who as a little girl was forced into getting her clitoris removed as a rite of passage into marriage. On her wedding day she vowed to change the fate of her daughters, so they would not suffer this mutilation.
Across the continent of Africa over 92 million girls and women have undergone this "rite of passage".
This is a huge humanitarian issue. Women are subjected to pain in which they have the one area that senses pleasure of sex removed. Males do not have any alterations to their sex organs, and women who have this procedure done will never be able to enjoy sex. It mentally, emotionally, and physically removes a women from enjoying the beauty of sex. It is a subservient and dangerous procedure. Woman should not be subjected to reside so far beneath men that they have an essential female part removed to take away one of the greatest pleasures in life.
A male can gratify himself into a female, who feels absolutely nothing. Possibly intrusion of pain is felt, but nothing more.
Imagine losing what was meant to be there for the want and need of sex biologically so we could go forth and procreate.
In America the greatest problem is pro-choice or pro-life, imagine now no choice in the matter, and no sexual pleasure during, but only pain. While we here in America focus on the battle of 46 chromosomes being alive or not, women in Africa fight to keep their actual vagina intact.
Africa is where this occurs the most. Africa is also where the highest rates of AIDS is. Now put non-medically trained people, with crude tools, unsanitary conditions, and a young girl with no choice into the same picture.
For more information and to help out you can also visit Amnesty International.
This is a real problem and should be addressed immediately.
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