This is a banal thread- therefore anything can be posted. If you don't feel like reading it, skip over it. It may be a bit disturbing. That is a warning.
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In class we watched female circumcision. We watched it BEING DONE- performed. No sanitary conditions, using a knife to cut the clitoris out. When the procedure is done and the girl is tied up to stop the bleeding, they do a tribal dance for becomming a woman. I'm not one who is usually squeamish. In high school I watched child-birth- no problem. This, I really was disturbed...
The girls (usually between 5-8 years of age) lay on a clay, non-sanitary ground in African where a "circumcision doctor"- (who really is nomore than another tribal-woman)takes a knife and takes out the clitoris which is thrown into the water for G/d.
Women are shunned if they are not circumsized. There was a guy with 3 wives and he wanted another (specific) one but he wouldn't accept her until she got circumsized
I mean, I guess it's natural/ritual for them. I'm sure some of the things we do here (in the US) they consider weird...(well, I consider a lot in the US weird too but that's another story)
It's not even they told us the story they showed very specific images. It's a college class so we all took the topic maturely even though it was quite anxiety producing (especially for the girls.)
At some really graphic points, the girls looked away while the guys stared at the TV...
Edit: Not that it matter but this was a documentary/made for class kind of video.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Updated On: 7/5/06 at 08:52 PM