Fact: FGM within Western communities

FGM hasn't only been happening among migrant communities from Africa and Asia

Renee grew up in Mid-West America. At the tender age of 3 she became a victim of FGM. In 1947 her mother brought her to see a doctor, because she assumed that her daughter was masturbating. That day Renee's clitoris was removed and she was told never to talk about it again.

But Renee is not the only woman from a Western society, who has undergone female genital mutilation.

At the beginning of the 19. century masturbation was believed to be a perversion, which had to be stopped with all available means. The British doctor Isaac Baker Brown introduced clitoridectomy, the surgical removal of the clitoris, as a method to reduce hysteria and masturbation in women.

Female Genital Mutilation was practiced in several countries all over the world in order to mute women's sexuality and pleasure. Still there are women, who have to suffer from the longterm consequences living all over the world.

There are and have been many religious leaders declaring masturbation a sin and recommending FGM to prevent it within Western communities!

FGM was and is still a worldwide problem, which has to be fought by every one of us!

 

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