female circumcision
Ritual genital cutting
Female circumcision is the partial or complete removal of external female genitalia, practiced in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as a cultural or religious tradition.
The procedure ranges from removing the clitoral hood to excising the clitoris and labia.
Medical and human rights organizations condemn the practice, preferring the term female genital mutilation (FGM) to emphasize its harmful effects: chronic pain, infection, complications in childbirth, and loss of sexual sensation.
Surgical excision of female anatomy
- excisionCutting out of tissue
- complicationsDifficulties that emerge unexpectedly
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
scarring · childbirth · fistula · pain · trauma · gynecology · reconstructive surgery · genitalia
Formal admission ceremony
- rite of passageTransition-marking ceremony
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- coming of ageReaching adult status
puberty · custom · cultural practice · ancestral · tribal · purification · social norm · gender roles
Excision of female genitalia
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
education · outreach · survivor · criminalization · legislation · ban · prosecution · protection
clitoridectomy
Surgical excision of female anatomy
- excisionCutting out of tissue
- complicationsDifficulties that emerge unexpectedly
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
infection · scarring · childbirth · fistula · pain · trauma · gynecology · reconstructive surgery · genitalia · wound
initiation
Formal admission ceremony
- rite of passageTransition-marking ceremony
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
coming of age · puberty · custom · cultural practice · ancestral · tribal · purification · social norm · gender roles · transition
FGM
Excision of female genitalia
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
campaign · education · outreach · survivor · criminalization · legislation · ban · prosecution · protection · rights
- controversial practicesabortion, capital punishment, death penalty, euthanasia, torture
- women's healthgynecologist, gynecology, menstruation, OB-GYN, period
- sacred sexualitysacred union, sacred marriage, tantric sex, tantra, fertility rites
female circumcisionchild safeguarding
Protecting youth from abuse
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