Female circumcision

Ha! Yeah right. Indonesia laws? What a joke, really.

Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can no longer perform female genital cutting, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday.....

..... Sri Hermiyanti, who heads the ministry's family health directorate, said symbolic female circumcisions that do not involve physical damaging of the child still could be carried out.

"Hurting, damaging, incising, cutting the clitoris are not allowed. These acts violate the reproductive rights of these girls and harm their organs," said the doctor, adding the announcement has been circulated to health workers since April....

....Hermiyanti added there was no punishment for those who still carry out the practice and she expected it would take time before more traditional communities abandon the ritual altogether.....

It would take time? Yes? You think? Try not in your lifetime. Try don't hold your breath. Try ain't never gonna happen. This is one country that, in my own opinion, doesn't seem to be holding it's own in any arena globally. Except tourism. And possibly terorism training schools.

I have a huge issue with female genetial mutilation. And mark my words, it IS mutilation. Cutting the clitoris doesn't improve a woman's fertility. It doesn't improve her desire for fidelity or her desire to fuck around. What it does do is take away a woman's natural and innate ability to achieve an orgasm.

I draw upon countless conversations with a working buddy who grew to be a great friend. Human sexuality was a topic of immense inmterest to the both of us. She was one of the best examples I've seen of a old religion living and breathing in a 21st century woman. And it was a bitch for her to maintain a successful sex life. Hers was lopped off at the top so she (or her husband) had viritually no nub to play around with.

That's in Singapore. Imagine the African Muslims, where in some communities the vagina is stitched up. Or the clitoris is sliced off with a razor. There are far worse things happening out there.


Yes. Imagine that.
Yes, I think it's mutilation.