The cruellest minimize: a child woman lies on a bed as medical professionals put together to complete her circumcision. Photograph: Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Pictures
So we have at last some significant public concern about that horror which we now rightly call FGM – female genital mutilation. As well usually it has gone below the name of “female circumcision”, which helps make it sound as innocuous as what’s completed to infant boys, but its actual purpose has been stated as “the control of women’s libido”.
The only even slightly consoling factor I have ever read on the subject was an item in this magazine about the issues which can, in very good circumstances, go some way in the direction of repairing the outrageous harm, although how efficacious this restoration can be is not specified.
But how can it be stopped? It genuinely must not be regarded as a women’s issue only, though the bizarre factor of it is that it is other women, “cutters”, who in fact do the deed. Perhaps the males have to be brought into the argument to get the entire notion abandoned. (Here is 1 radical suggestion, not necessarily mine: that for each little one girl who suffers FGM, the law need to demand the castration of a senior member of the loved ones concerned. I realise that this is not quite most likely to obtain public approval).
It may possibly be, paradoxically, that only by involving men’s desires can it be stopped only if it is noticed to make a woman significantly less attractive to possible husbands will the mothers, ever anxious to marry off their daughters, refuse to let it take place. So males – above to you.
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What men can do to stop female genital mutilation | Katharine Whitehorn
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