Quote Originally Posted by singlewedge View Post
I just read an article about that. Apparently it is going by the wayside. FGM is usually done when the child is between 5 and 8 by midwives. Now it seems that there is an underground movement to stop this practice. Mothers are using henna body art to tell the midwife that she would not want this done and the midwives are being trained to "fake" the FGM. It is grass roots and picking up steam. Hopefully it will move very far forward. FWIW, FGM is not about eliminating pleasure it is about the husband knowing that his wife is a virgin. If the safety seal is broken, she is not a virgin.

I think that the men are not sure about each other.
So in other words there is an underground women's movement to keep their daughters from being mutilated. It has to be kept secret from the men and I wonder what the men would do, legally, to the women if they found out...........I'm thinking a divorce wouldn't be a part of it.

Yea this is a culture worth allowing to survive.

I'm not even talking about religion here, because this isn't in the Koran anywhere. This is purely a cultural bastardization of morals and should not be tolerated in any part of the world that calls itself free.