The Egyptian Controversy Over Circumcising Girls
By: B. Chernitsky*?
"Circumcising Girls Prevents Unnatural Sexual Pleasure
Among the proponents of circumcising girls are Islamists who rely on medical, rather than religious, support for their arguments. The practice, they say, is beneficial to women's health, since it facilitates washing the genitalia and contributes to normal sexual relations.
A surgical specialist at Al-Azhar University, Dr. Muhammad Rif'at Al-Bawwab, provides an example, saying that women can wash and clean the genital area more easily if part of their sexual organ has been removed. In addition, he says, the clitoris protrudes more than other parts of a woman's genitalia, and "this protrusion causes it to rub against clothing and other things, which diverts the attention of the adolescent girl toward unnatural pleasure that is likely to make her addicted to it in an abnormal and damaging way… After marriage, it is difficult to prevent this from happening to a woman who has become accustomed to it. [The only way to deal with this situation is] to conduct sexual relations in an abnormal way, in which her clitoris is rubbed forcefully, as she has become accustomed [thus leading to her moral degradation].
"Therefore, the removal of the clitoris during circumcision greatly reduces [the chances] of this occurring. In this way, the woman remains unaware, and she finds enjoyment with her husband in the natural way, [only by] the male organ rubbing the woman's vagina and cervix, which are the source of her pleasure [and not via the clitoris]."
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This article makes the US discussion about "late-term" abortions sound quaint. What they share is an effort by Males to regulate Female sexuality and reproduction activities, as if some Mullah or President has the knowledge and experience to make decisions about a woman's body that they have no personal, professional, ethical, or moral jurisdiction over. Leave this to the individual woman and her chosen medical professionals !! not some damn religious or political person, especially if it's a Male !!!!
Say Muslim Guys, for sanitary purposes, to lessen the chances of moral degradation, and to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, why do you not support the removal of Male external genitalia?
posted by Richard at
Friday, November 07, 2003
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