Female Circumcision
In my senior year of high school I took an Anatomy and Physiology course in which we discussed a lot of things, especially about diseases and the things that other cultures practiced. But the one thing that still sticks out in my mind is the topic of female circumcision. My teacher, Mrs. Vanrouski, showed us a video in which model Waris Dirie reflects on her childhood in Somalia where she herself was circumcised at the young age of five. She says “And since the prevailing wisdom in Somalia is that there are bad things between a girl's legs, a woman is considered dirty, oversexed and unmarriageable unless those parts--the clitoris, the labia minora, and most of the labia majora-are removed. Then the wound is stitched shut, leaving only a small opening and a scar where the genitals had been-a practice called infibulation.” In an interview published in Jet magazine she said that she is still curious as to how the practice began and is still searching to find an answer. This made......
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