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Rightfully banning physicians from performing FGM given the argument of stopping propagation is inherently hypocritical given male genital mutilation. If we support arguments that a boy's mutilation is medically valid given the fear that perpetrators would seek unsanitary black-market practitioners, then FGM is also valid medically. We're not analyzing the morally bankrupt practice itself, we're propagating and condoning the practice given the pseudo-morality of utilizing the steadiest trained hands and sharpest knives.
@@JellyfishRave be careful with that. You make something blanket illegal and then doctors could get sued for removing them even if there is a valid medical reason! And doctors don't like being sued. Plus, that might give insurance companies a valid reason to refuse to cover necessary procedures.
I believe genital cutting in both boys and girls is a human rights abuse. Adults need to leave the genitals of both little girls and little boys alone. It's the owners body and their choice in ALL cases.
@@homewall744 In medicine it isn't ethical to amputate healthy tissue from a minor except when there is a medical diagnosis with an actual medical condition. There are no other analogs where parents are allowed to simply request a doctor to chop off a healthy part of their child. Considering this is erogenous tissue and it is a permanent mutilation, this is a serious human rights violation. Would you subject your daughter to this? Why shouldn't boys have the right to keep their whole bodies?
@@reednelson6030 Stop being disingenuous. What you're doing is the same as answering "all lives matter" when "black lives matter" comes up. I'm opposed to male circumcision as well, I don't think anyone should be getting their bits removed. But jesus fucking christ it's like every time we try to have a conversation about FGM, you guys have to bring up male circumcision. It would feel a lot more genuine if you men actually started conversations about male circumcision outside of this context, but you never do. The only time you talk about it is during a conversation about FGM. When you make these comments, you derail the conversation and downplay the experiences of women who survived fgm. By doing this, you're showing how selfish and inconsiderate you are.
When my son was born, the hospital and the doctors tried their hardest to convince me to circumcise him. They even let me observe a circumcision. The procedure used no anesthesia or painkiller, and the baby boy was crying his lungs out. I never felt such hatred for a medical professional in my life. Genital Mutilation needs to be outlawed and the people who perform it and advocates of it, must be executed for crimes against humanity.
My whole thought is; in our culture, this is the most sacred part of the male body. In a country that has drinking water, let alone indoor plumbing, there is no excuse not to keep it clean. If you can't even do that, you don't deserve to use it. I've *never* had an issue with infection.
I tried to watch a circumcision on UA-cam and it was so upsetting I cried. If I had a Son I wouldn't circumcise him. Thank you for not torturing your baby.
@@jacobstaten2366 I totally agree. I've been with men that weren't circumcised and it was not an issue. I feel bad for men that are circumcised, you lose sensitivity.
Genital mutilation is absolutely disgusting. Nobody should be subjected to forced genital cutting. To remove part of someone’s body, especially their privates, without their mature and informed consent is atrocious and shouldn’t be legal. Not even if it’s part of your culture or religion, not even if you think it’s for their own good, and not even if you think you have the right to because it’s your child. Bodily autonomy is a human right, and violating it like this should be illegal.
@@Changed.User100Sad pathetic anti-feminist troll. This comment was speaking out against genital mutilation in general yet that's the best question you come up with
@@Changed.User100Your bio shows you have no life all your entertaiment comes from debating feminists they should just ignore you so you become pissed off
I believe circumcision for both males and females should be done away with. If an adult wants to be circumcised with their consent, that’s fine, but doing it to kids and babies is wrong.
I don't think it's bad for males if done safely. It was done to me and I think it's good hygiene wise. I still wouldn't force it or even advise it to anyone else.
Both FGM and male circumcision should be totally banned regardless of the religion of the victim. In most cases, the age of the victim is such that they do not acquiesce to the mutilation. If such mutilation is required by the parents' religion, then the children need to be safe until they are mature enough and attain the age of 18 so they can make their own decision. Mutilators, regardless of religion, should be subject to extremely heavy fines and years of prison as they can never undo the physical outrage they are responsible for. Parents are ultimately responsible for their children and should also be subject to fines and imprisonment should an "accident" befall the child.
I'm open to banning gential mutilation for *minors* in America. People have a right to their bodies in America and if that means circumcision then, that person will just have to wait to make that decision until their an adult
@@voicemxil it’s not healthy, in fact many many people contract diseases and hygenical issues when not done. And that extra foreskin just makes all types of filth accumulate or is this part of the new trend where everything that was considered traditional and normal throughout history suddenly “not good” and is a “human rights abuse” and all the other bullshit
@@jeremydavis5661 Christians submitting to Muslim culture in Nigeria I guess. Clitorectamy is generally an islamic/arabian cultural thing. I guess Arab colonialism made African countries adopt this barbaric practice.
When she said it is not a cultural thing...she meant that child abuse should not be considered apart of any culture. She said it in a different video, culture should not be a defense in these situations since it's basically child abuse
For boys it's for what they believe medical reasons. To prevent infections and problems later. For woman it's just for control, they sometimes cut off everything and leave a tiny hole which needs to be cut open when she is married. Sex is basically torture so obviously she isn't sleeping around. It's a totally different situation. More akin to them cutting off your entire eggplant without anesthesia so you don't have sex but when you're old enough they cut you up and stick something in the wound. Eventually leading to something the size of a watermelon coming out
I was completely blind that this happened in America. My heart aches. Aches for all women in the world. It is criminal. And it should be prosecuted and children should be protected in the same way other abuse is. This is a violent and cruel act. IT IS CONTROL.
My heart does ache for boys, neither of my boys are circumcised. However I think a major difference between the circumcision of boys vs girls is the reasoning behind it. I believe boys are circumcised for what is believed health reasons. Girls are cut to remove pleasure from sex. I would hope that is completely evident.
Also, "much harder for men"? Really? Now don't get me wrong, I don't believe in boys being circumcised. BUT COME ON! Men still get to have orgasms and it's all ok. Women's ability to equally have an orgasm often completely excised. If men were disabled from having an orgasm the practice would have ended before it even began. Women have never, especially in the cultures where FGM is prevalent, had complete control over their bodies and what happens to them. And as an ending note. Understanding others, or at least trying should be a fundamental goal. Because this video looks at an issue from a female pic doesn't lessen yours. What we go through, the joys and heartache, pain, doesn't mean others aren't going through things too. In other words, your A is just as valid as mine as well as Joe over there or Jane, or insert name here....
@@Plantbliss no I get it, the consequences are heavy for women that go through FGM. I think it's a horrible practice. I don't wanna say one is worse than the other until you answer this one question. Is it completely impossible for women to find pleasure in sex for women who go through FGM? I thought women can orgasm 2 ways?
@violinstful can you really not fathom that there can be men that unlike you are actually and genuinely appaled upon finding out about FGM? your mind automatically jumps to him getting girls?
@@penny4thought168 but boys get circumcised literally everywhere, girls get done in only small countries and most of the world bans fgm but no where bans mgm
@@phakyuu5028it’s allowed and it’s completely fine, a lot of states require testing of disease before hand and medical staff on hand by. Also you need to do it rlly young (like days) again this is to ensure the child doesn’t feel any emotional or physical pain afterwards later in their life. I have never heard a person say they regretted being operated. If anything it’s the opposite because they feel disconnected from the community.
If circumcision and even nicking on females is considered FGM, than male circumcision should definitely fall under MGM ,and infant males and boys should also be protected.
what's the long term harm for males tho? I was circumsized at birth and can't tell anything bad about it. Uf anything, I feel it's good hygiene wise to not have that flap of skin that's more difficult to clean and can get dirty and nasty on the inside.
@@alexm566 Long term effects include a permanent reduction in sensitivity and general pain. It's only unhygienic if you don't clean it. It's not hard. That's like saying we need to remove everyone's fingernails because you have to put in a tiny bit of effort to clean under them.
@@alexm566 male circumcision does not affect most men negatively. but for men like me, I have major psychological issues with body integrity. I feel like I'm less of a man because part of me that should be there, is missing.
@@alexm566 You cant speak for every man just because you yourself have been circumcised. Even babies go through this practice without consent. Just use your brain for once
@@stephenmartinez1 "male circumcision does not affect most men negatively." It inherently does as healthy tissue is excised arbitrarily without consent. Thousands of severed specialized nerve-endings and the resulting desensitization of the glans via keratinization over time. Unless you mean psychologically? In which case, the vast majority of women that have undergone the procedure in cultures that perform FGM view it similarly positively or benign.
Because often the torturers are moms, grandmothers and aunts. If you mom Is generally great except for this will you tell? Also it is ingrained culturally, if everyone did it why would you tell?
I’ve been through this when I was 11 years old and they had to forced me to get married when I was 14 by the time he was breaking my virginity I bleed so much and I fainted and my family almost buried me. They thought I was dead. It was very hard broken situation, but I’m glad I passed that. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to do it to their babies this is not fun at all
women are considered property in islam. they are not supposed to enjoy sex, that pleasure is only for the man. It's not surprising, since men were the ones who wrote the religion in the first place.
That’s heartbreaking, I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I pray you’ve been able to get help and support, an experience like that could leave you with life long trauma.
This is a tradition I read of in my culture back in the 50’s when a female would marry into the grooms side. She would be wrapped in cloth and walk across a field from her family to the grooms and the grooms family would perform this to prove she is pure and a virgin. If she bled that would mean she is a pure vessel and if not then she would be caught in her lie and not be accepted and nothing would be heard of her type thing. This is crazy!!
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If “female circumcision” was simply snipping off the clitoral hood, it would still be bad, more or less the same as male foreskin circumcision. But when the entire clitoris is sliced off, it’s not “circumcision.” It’s forced genital amputation.
Vile, cruel, perverse, deplorable, abominable, disfiguring, dibalitating, evil practice that causes a lifetime of pain, suffering and deprivation. It's not circumcision it's mutilation and torture, disgusting and contemptible.
We have it for males because there is almost no negative consequences to a baby if the cutting is done. Furthermore the people who do it to there children have it deep in there cultural roots and almost no person regrets there operation, if anything, some Jewish and Muslim kids feel sad that they didn’t have it and it makes them feel further separated from the community. I am so glad I had it when I was super young and didn’t have to feel the pain that my father did. And yes I know some operations have led to horrible consequences, and to that I say that it should have medical standby throughout the procedure, testing of the operator (some cases of std resulted in children dying).
@@Hellodjsjwjejd This is a complete lie. There are a lot of negative consequences, starting with a decrease in sensitivity, ending with drying and wrinkling in old age
@@etherzon I have friends (Jewish and Muslim) who went through the surgery when they became adults. They all told me the biggest noticing factor is the sensitivity loss. That being said someone who went through it at infancy wouldn’t feel any pain or negative consequences and that’s why these cultures always show the importance of doing it during infancy.
As a Detroit native, woman, and a healthcare professional I am HORRIFIED that this is happening so close to home. Im about to make these doctors famous if its the last thing I do.
The exact same procedure given the exact same reasoning is occurring to children within your profession right now. Likely in the hospital you work in. Likely physicians you see daily have committed the genital mutilation.
Yeah? Really? You know a lot of Republicans who support this? Know a lot of Orthodox Christians to do this to their daughters? Name one Conservative thinker in the west who supports this? Its a Radical Islam problem and we all know it. And the conservative/right wing side is not the one who supports Islamic culture in the West.
@@dannyarcher438 you missed my point. conservatives, no matter what country always have problems with the people because they like to throw away progressive attitudes to an ever changing world. conservatives in the west have their own versions of oppsression and archaic destructive values. it wasnt long ago that western conservatives thought homosexuality was a mental illness. whats with conservatives wanting to control sexuality and sexual function so much?
How ironic. When "conservatives" criticize the practice they are called "Islamophobic bigots". You are a phucking hypocrite. If the evangelical right is the religion of the Republican party, then fundamentalist Islam is the religion of the Democratic party. The leftists pander to the Islamist without reading the theological literature that underlays the doctrines. Liberalism is weakness, and leftism is Islamic.
@Bill Anderson it's a conservativism from an entirely different culture. If you can't tell the difference between being against big government, taxes and late term abortions, and being for chopping off people's heads and genital mutilation, you're so part of the problem. And the top states where women are mor at risk of female genital mutilation are California, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Washington, Virginia, and Texas. Everyone of these states went for Democrat in the 2016 election except Texas. States without laws against female genital mutilation include Washington, Hawaii, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont. Tell me are those conservative states?
Don’t ignore the 1.1 million American boys who suffer genital mutilation (circumcision) every year. 140million American Men such as myself are victims of hemi-castration
The vast majority of victims of genital mutilation are men. They exist in the same room as you at all times within your very culture. They need your support.
@@endcgm9277you may want to google the definition of sexism. this is an educational video focusing specifically on a small portion of a global issue. I'm sorry you think that a video focusing on women is sexist.
It’s been happening to boys in the US since the late 1800s. We’re the land of the hemi-castrated slaves and the home of the quiet cowards rather than the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It *technically* is, under pre-existing assault laws. Amputating healthy tissue from someone by force is already a crime, but the federal prohibition specifying FGM as such was what was shot down. In the states without specific laws, there's still a chance with the current laws. I'm outraged regardless-legal recourse won't undo the violation.
A minor form is legal for men and no one talks about that. It’s unconstitutional to ban hoodectomy without banning circumcision. You can’t eradicate FGM without eradicating circumcision
I’m sad to say, I was completely ignorant to this topic until watching “orange is the new black”.. but I’m glad I now know. Peace be with these women. And all women.
This is f****** horrible I have never been so angry. This practice needs to stop harming women. This is why abortion and prostitution should be legal and protected underneath the law. You shouldn't be able to tell people what to do with their bodies it makes me sick that these women's have been scarred like this. God bless all these women
Blado exactly, thank you blado. Why isnt the male side being talked about more. Me being a male, or at least last time i checked ahaha, i sympathyse with my brothers who had to go through this without their own consent. It seems to me like a violation of rights even IF theyre babies man.
Julie Goodrich thank you julie goodrich, your comment made me feel a huge sense of relief that i wasnt the only one who thought this practice was weird and seemingly, unnecessary. Good to know others also think its weird. When it comes to dating i always get that question of circumcision lol idk why. But people give me a look of almost shock when i tell them im not. Is circumcision that normal now?
There is an organization based in Senegal called Tostan run by a lady called Molly Melchling. They have had a lot of success combating FGM. If u want to know more I recommend them.
I love me some weeds, but there were some voters whose single issue vote was devoted purely to wanting pot legalized, so they voted for a guy who would legalize pot but also ended up bringing ISIS fighters into the country. Whomp
Let’s get something straight, just like male foreskin circumcision, the horror of FGM has very little to do with the physical pain of the anmputation itself. The true horror is living a sexually mature adult life with your sexual organ either desensitized, or entirely gone because it was amputated.
I just found out about this today !!!! Absolutely terrible and should never take place !!!!!! Millions of women disfigured for what??????? I’m confused ?? What’s the purpose of this ****!!!!! We need to stop this !
How can she say it's not religious or cultural? It literally says in the Bible to do circumcision. Countries in Africa do circumcision as a "gateway to manhood". It IS religious and cultural.
@Supreet Virk Truthful Sikh Jesus Christ himself was circumcized. Luke 1:59. All his apostles were circumcized and apostle Paul circumcized timothy Acts 16:3. So yeah...Judaism, Islam, AND Christianity all push this barbaric practice onto people. "Be like Jesus, circumcize".
I didn't know they were doing it in the US,it should be up 2 the person if they want it not the parents.Whatever happened 2 assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping,holding some1 against there will,intention 2 commit bodily harm and torture ????
this needs to Stop... its not right under no circumstances this should ever take place, it breaks my heart 😢 to no that people practice this painful act on children
That was abuse. Religious/ritual abuse. Anyone & it does not matter WHAT religion they believe in & actively practice, it doesn't matter WHAT skin colour what heritage you are from, mutilating a child's sexual organ/body is an act against their human rights. PERIOD. The fact that one of those woman said their mother took her to the baseement of their relatives house to get that procedure done ?? That isn't normal that type of thing is seen in ritual abuse reports. The child will believe this is normal yet thousands of other children did not undergo this. The child cannot understand that this adult, the person who the child TRUSTS, is humiliating the child's body & psyche by mutilating their genitals. They do not understand that !! The child will grow up believing it was for a purpose. These predatory adults prey on the innocence of children !! I feel such remorse for each of these women. I hope their lives today are much more peaceful
It is imperative that we pursue and criminally prosecute the criminals and monsters that perform and in any way participate in this obviously criminal act of FGM. The criminals that perform this criminal act need to be jailed for lengthy periods of time and should be sued into oblivion to compensate the victims. We need legislation to outlaw this heinous practice that is unacceptable in any civilized country. What’s next if legislation is not passed and enforcement is not vigorously enforced? That it’s all right to cut off a woman’s breasts or blind her because women are Second-class downtrodden citizens in backward savage misogynistic societies?
It's also practised in Canada as well. A personal conversation I had with a young woman from Somalia who told me that "a woman in London, Ontario performs both the original FGM AND sewing the woman up AGAIN AFTER giving birth. How the woman gets' re-opened again 'by the man' is horrific, barbaric and EVIL. It IS an evil practice.
well i live in turkey (i mean turkey is a middle easthern country) and i never heard this until isis i heard isis doing that thats all wtf this is terrorism level thing
@EruditeSiren di'Cosmos true but as a remind white culture isnt civizilation not only whites ı mean white culture is civilize right but for example japan culture is civilize too or slavian culture which is white too but little different ı hope someda middle easth can be civilize too as itself not like an european copy
@@italiansoldierfromww2460 yes but ı searched it n turkey there is some ppl who trying to be arab (they re not too much but not less too) and they re doing this but with their willing u cant force ppl in turkey cause police and specifically soldiers ready for that kind of extreme islamic situations but its very sad
Many doctors in the US do it for money. 1.1 million boys every year have their genitals stolen and sold for profit. It’s vivisection and live organ harvesting.
Not trying to take away the importance of it happening to these women, but it happens to men as well. They just get you when you're a *baby* fresh out of the womb so you can't even remember it.
*FGM has tribal roots, hence why it's most prevalent in Africa. There are non-Muslims who practice FGM such as the Maasai people, and most Muslims around the world don't practice FGM. It's almost unheard of in South Asia where there are large Islamic populations. Those Muslims who practice it do so because of culture and sect, not religion.*
its not really a thing in the middle east, even in our class no one knew about it when a girl from Africa brought it up, and no there is no such thing in Islam, i think it's more a cultural thing, i'm seriously sad for those ladies, it should be more talked about.
Middle East has FGM. The prophet accepted the practice and multiple hadithd support it. It is condone in Islam and loads of Muslim scholars see it as Islamic Sunnah
@@mimilocke5650 The issue of female circumcision is not a religious issue of worship at its origin, but it is an issue due to customs and traditions. Many scholars have said that it is not obligatory for women, and we do not know of a hadith in which the Prophet ordered his wives or daughters to circumcise , there is hadith that talk about circumcision but not necessarily about FGM. and its not popular in the middle east taking in consideration there is 16 country FGM is mostly practiced in the north african part.
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Wish I can be helped to over come this pain by undergoing a reconstructive surgery here in my county
@@FGM_SurvivorAfrica14. Kids are being groomed to cut off healthy body parts in Tennessee.
Rightfully banning physicians from performing FGM given the argument of stopping propagation is inherently hypocritical given male genital mutilation. If we support arguments that a boy's mutilation is medically valid given the fear that perpetrators would seek unsanitary black-market practitioners, then FGM is also valid medically. We're not analyzing the morally bankrupt practice itself, we're propagating and condoning the practice given the pseudo-morality of utilizing the steadiest trained hands and sharpest knives.
There is no reason for this procedure whatsoever. It should be illegal in all countries!
Even if there WAS a "reason" it should be illegal! Taking healthy body parts from non-consenting people is the most grave form of human rights abuse!
@@JellyfishRave be careful with that. You make something blanket illegal and then doctors could get sued for removing them even if there is a valid medical reason! And doctors don't like being sued. Plus, that might give insurance companies a valid reason to refuse to cover necessary procedures.
The most feminist of religions would never be down with that, I'm sure.
Only when circumsicing males at birth is illegal
@@buttsexting5618 He means medically unnecessary reasons
I believe genital cutting in both boys and girls is a human rights abuse. Adults need to leave the genitals of both little girls and little boys alone. It's the owners body and their choice in ALL cases.
Except parents make decisions for their children daily, including life and death ones.
@@homewall744 In medicine it isn't ethical to amputate healthy tissue from a minor except when there is a medical diagnosis with an actual medical condition. There are no other analogs where parents are allowed to simply request a doctor to chop off a healthy part of their child. Considering this is erogenous tissue and it is a permanent mutilation, this is a serious human rights violation.
Would you subject your daughter to this? Why shouldn't boys have the right to keep their whole bodies?
It's not the same though. Fgm is way worse
@@passionflower1566 Does it need to be competition? Can't we find it in ourselves to allow both boys and girls to keep their genitals unaltered?
@@reednelson6030 Stop being disingenuous. What you're doing is the same as answering "all lives matter" when "black lives matter" comes up. I'm opposed to male circumcision as well, I don't think anyone should be getting their bits removed. But jesus fucking christ it's like every time we try to have a conversation about FGM, you guys have to bring up male circumcision. It would feel a lot more genuine if you men actually started conversations about male circumcision outside of this context, but you never do. The only time you talk about it is during a conversation about FGM. When you make these comments, you derail the conversation and downplay the experiences of women who survived fgm. By doing this, you're showing how selfish and inconsiderate you are.
When my son was born, the hospital and the doctors tried their hardest to convince me to circumcise him. They even let me observe a circumcision. The procedure used no anesthesia or painkiller, and the baby boy was crying his lungs out. I never felt such hatred for a medical professional in my life. Genital Mutilation needs to be outlawed and the people who perform it and advocates of it, must be executed for crimes against humanity.
My whole thought is; in our culture, this is the most sacred part of the male body. In a country that has drinking water, let alone indoor plumbing, there is no excuse not to keep it clean. If you can't even do that, you don't deserve to use it. I've *never* had an issue with infection.
I tried to watch a circumcision on UA-cam and it was so upsetting I cried. If I had a Son I wouldn't circumcise him. Thank you for not torturing your baby.
you're a great Dad, homie.
@@jacobstaten2366 I totally agree. I've been with men that weren't circumcised and it was not an issue. I feel bad for men that are circumcised, you lose sensitivity.
There is nothing to help with pain???
Genital mutilation is absolutely disgusting. Nobody should be subjected to forced genital cutting. To remove part of someone’s body, especially their privates, without their mature and informed consent is atrocious and shouldn’t be legal. Not even if it’s part of your culture or religion, not even if you think it’s for their own good, and not even if you think you have the right to because it’s your child. Bodily autonomy is a human right, and violating it like this should be illegal.
so a woman should be able to circumcise herself?
@@Changed.User100Sad pathetic anti-feminist troll. This comment was speaking out against genital mutilation in general yet that's the best question you come up with
@@Changed.User100Male circumcision and fgm are both bad
@@Changed.User100Your bio shows you have no life all your entertaiment comes from debating feminists they should just ignore you so you become pissed off
@@Changed.User100What a low IQ caveman response
I believe circumcision for both males and females should be done away with. If an adult wants to be circumcised with their consent, that’s fine, but doing it to kids and babies is wrong.
If I had a Son I wouldn't circumcise him. I agree there needs to be an end to Male circumcision.
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It is always wrong
Male circumcision is not comparable to female genital mutilation
I don't think it's bad for males if done safely. It was done to me and I think it's good hygiene wise. I still wouldn't force it or even advise it to anyone else.
Both FGM and male circumcision should be totally banned regardless of the religion of the victim. In most cases, the age of the victim is such that they do not acquiesce to the mutilation. If such mutilation is required by the parents' religion, then the children need to be safe until they are mature enough and attain the age of 18 so they can make their own decision. Mutilators, regardless of religion, should be subject to extremely heavy fines and years of prison as they can never undo the physical outrage they are responsible for. Parents are ultimately responsible for their children and should also be subject to fines and imprisonment should an "accident" befall the child.
I'm open to banning gential mutilation for *minors* in America.
People have a right to their bodies in America and if that means circumcision then, that person will just have to wait to make that decision until their an adult
I'm happy I'm circumcised and I'm also happy it was done when I was a baby so I don't remember it.
@ so nothing wrong with female circumcision either by your logic
@@notsure6187 Why ?
@@InsaneSoulFox female circumcision is typically not done at young age as males, and it has many more serious side effects.
Thank you for publishing this report.
This is child abuse.
Last time I checked we had laws against that!
Lmao you think our rights actually matter. Cute.
Trump had his hands in it stopping it from becoming a Federal Law. Our so called "Leader" GOD HELP US
I have been circumcised as a child I don’t understand why is it a problem??
@@عمر-ل9ع2ي slicing off healthy tissue is "not a problem" to u?
@@voicemxil it’s not healthy, in fact many many people contract diseases and hygenical issues when not done. And that extra foreskin just makes all types of filth accumulate or is this part of the new trend where everything that was considered traditional and normal throughout history suddenly “not good” and is a “human rights abuse” and all the other bullshit
I grew up as a boy in Nigeria I’m still disgusted that people do this to their young daughters. How could you do something so barbaric and cruel
You seem like the right person to stop it from happening in the future. God bless!
One word: Islam
Salamenace it’s Christians doing it tho lol
Jeremy Davis its almost exclusively muslims, please educate yourself
@@jeremydavis5661 Christians submitting to Muslim culture in Nigeria I guess. Clitorectamy is generally an islamic/arabian cultural thing. I guess Arab colonialism made African countries adopt this barbaric practice.
When she said it is not a cultural thing...she meant that child abuse should not be considered apart of any culture. She said it in a different video, culture should not be a defense in these situations since it's basically child abuse
its abuse of women, which includes girls.
*So wrong on many levels, best wishes to all the affected women*
Midnight Cravings men also experience it but ok
No U the original commenter never said that it can’t happen to men. Can you just acknowledge the issue itself without making it a gender war?
Nerd lol
And men
@@endcgm9277 this video is about FGM, how about you make your own campaigns against circumcision?
As a male, I was cut as a baby because at the time I was born every baby boy was cut without parental consent
thats gross why they do that to boys but not girls.
@@Changed.User100Gender equality and hypocrisy.
For boys it's for what they believe medical reasons. To prevent infections and problems later. For woman it's just for control, they sometimes cut off everything and leave a tiny hole which needs to be cut open when she is married. Sex is basically torture so obviously she isn't sleeping around. It's a totally different situation. More akin to them cutting off your entire eggplant without anesthesia so you don't have sex but when you're old enough they cut you up and stick something in the wound. Eventually leading to something the size of a watermelon coming out
@@Changed.User100we are a g3nital Mut!lation CULTure
I was completely blind that this happened in America. My heart aches. Aches for all women in the world. It is criminal. And it should be prosecuted and children should be protected in the same way other abuse is. This is a violent and cruel act. IT IS CONTROL.
@imjustsaying tho yeah bro I was 5 years old...that shit was painful. Wish I had a choice
My heart does ache for boys, neither of my boys are circumcised. However I think a major difference between the circumcision of boys vs girls is the reasoning behind it. I believe boys are circumcised for what is believed health reasons. Girls are cut to remove pleasure from sex. I would hope that is completely evident.
Also, "much harder for men"? Really? Now don't get me wrong, I don't believe in boys being circumcised. BUT COME ON! Men still get to have orgasms and it's all ok. Women's ability to equally have an orgasm often completely excised. If men were disabled from having an orgasm the practice would have ended before it even began. Women have never, especially in the cultures where FGM is prevalent, had complete control over their bodies and what happens to them. And as an ending note. Understanding others, or at least trying should be a fundamental goal. Because this video looks at an issue from a female pic doesn't lessen yours. What we go through, the joys and heartache, pain, doesn't mean others aren't going through things too. In other words, your A is just as valid as mine as well as Joe over there or Jane, or insert name here....
AnneMarie Bliss only people from poor country do that... american dont do that
@@Plantbliss no I get it, the consequences are heavy for women that go through FGM. I think it's a horrible practice. I don't wanna say one is worse than the other until you answer this one question. Is it completely impossible for women to find pleasure in sex for women who go through FGM? I thought women can orgasm 2 ways?
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no it wouldn't, if you are willing to cut off a part of your child's body you shouldn't be allowed to have a child
I didnt even know this was a thing?!? It boggles my mind as to the ridiculous prejudices humanity has about women.
She's not gonna see this dude.
@violinstful can you really not fathom that there can be men that unlike you are actually and genuinely appaled upon finding out about FGM? your mind automatically jumps to him getting girls?
This is CLEAR child abuse. It's shocking that any state would allow something like this for boys or girls. Parents are very much to blame
well the law protects girls. All you need to say is boys.
@@phakyuu5028 Not always unfortunately.
@@penny4thought168 but boys get circumcised literally everywhere, girls get done in only small countries and most of the world bans fgm but no where bans mgm
@@phakyuu5028lol you fucking wish
@@phakyuu5028it’s allowed and it’s completely fine, a lot of states require testing of disease before hand and medical staff on hand by. Also you need to do it rlly young (like days) again this is to ensure the child doesn’t feel any emotional or physical pain afterwards later in their life.
I have never heard a person say they regretted being operated. If anything it’s the opposite because they feel disconnected from the community.
If circumcision and even nicking on females is considered FGM, than male circumcision should definitely fall under MGM ,and infant males and boys should also be protected.
what's the long term harm for males tho? I was circumsized at birth and can't tell anything bad about it. Uf anything, I feel it's good hygiene wise to not have that flap of skin that's more difficult to clean and can get dirty and nasty on the inside.
@@alexm566 Long term effects include a permanent reduction in sensitivity and general pain.
It's only unhygienic if you don't clean it. It's not hard. That's like saying we need to remove everyone's fingernails because you have to put in a tiny bit of effort to clean under them.
@@alexm566 male circumcision does not affect most men negatively. but for men like me, I have major psychological issues with body integrity. I feel like I'm less of a man because part of me that should be there, is missing.
@@alexm566 You cant speak for every man just because you yourself have been circumcised. Even babies go through this practice without consent. Just use your brain for once
@@stephenmartinez1 "male circumcision does not affect most men negatively." It inherently does as healthy tissue is excised arbitrarily without consent. Thousands of severed specialized nerve-endings and the resulting desensitization of the glans via keratinization over time. Unless you mean psychologically? In which case, the vast majority of women that have undergone the procedure in cultures that perform FGM view it similarly positively or benign.
Why the torturers not in jail?
Because often the torturers are moms, grandmothers and aunts. If you mom
Is generally great except for this will you tell? Also it is ingrained culturally, if everyone did it why would you tell?
Why don't circumcision victims kill their circumciser?
I’ve been through this when I was 11 years old and they had to forced me to get married when I was 14 by the time he was breaking my virginity I bleed so much and I fainted and my family almost buried me. They thought I was dead. It was very hard broken situation, but I’m glad I passed that. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to do it to their babies this is not fun at all
women are considered property in islam. they are not supposed to enjoy sex, that pleasure is only for the man. It's not surprising, since men were the ones who wrote the religion in the first place.
So heart breaking :( I’m sorry you went through that
I am so sorry to hear what you had to endure. My heart goes out to you for going through such horrific and traumatic experiences
That’s heartbreaking, I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I pray you’ve been able to get help and support, an experience like that could leave you with life long trauma.
@@anonhikijeez incel, get out of the Internet
Another way too control women.
And men
This is a tradition I read of in my culture back in the 50’s when a female would marry into the grooms side. She would be wrapped in cloth and walk across a field from her family to the grooms and the grooms family would perform this to prove she is pure and a virgin. If she bled that would mean she is a pure vessel and if not then she would be caught in her lie and not be accepted and nothing would be heard of her type thing. This is crazy!!
Genital mutilation is messed up regardless who does it or who gets it done to them. It’s not just a women’s issue. Many cultures have this problem.
1.1 million American boys are stripped of their genital flesh every year in the US alone
We are born with these pieces within our body for a reason.
Male genital mutilation in the US is still legal, common, socially accepted and defended by people who hate baby boys.
If you're a woman you're a survivor but if you're a guy in america it was "necessary for hygiene"
FGM should be criminalize stop child abuse
What about MGM?
@@inexternalrecords There are videos talking about that all across UA-cam. Why aren't you over there?
cope harder you fragile females
Wrong.
CGM (child genital mutilation) should be criminalized.
Let’s not discriminate on the basis of gender
I agree FGM must be criminalized and banned in every single country in the world.
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Diversity is Strength.
War is freedom:
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Peace is slavery:
the converse of above
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If “female circumcision” was simply snipping off the clitoral hood, it would still be bad, more or less the same as male foreskin circumcision. But when the entire clitoris is sliced off, it’s not “circumcision.” It’s forced genital amputation.
Very true
If circumcision is a tradition, can getting revenge on your circumciser also be a tradition?
MGM is bad. FGM is worse. When discussing FGM, MGM should be acknowledged or at least mentioned.
theyre both done for different reasons, which is why MGM isnt mentioned, bht it definitely should be. leave the genitals of babies alone
MGM isn't mentioned because it's accepted by society and protected under the guise of religion. MGM is despicable. As is FGM.
Agreed, except FGM isn’t “worse”. That’s a lie you’ve been told by the people who want to mutilate boys, or deny their own mutilation
Vile, cruel, perverse, deplorable, abominable, disfiguring, dibalitating, evil practice that causes a lifetime of pain, suffering and deprivation. It's not circumcision it's mutilation and torture, disgusting and contemptible.
This is just horrible and why do we still have male circumcision in the US? Babies have a right to genital integrity.
We have it for males because there is almost no negative consequences to a baby if the cutting is done. Furthermore the people who do it to there children have it deep in there cultural roots and almost no person regrets there operation, if anything, some Jewish and Muslim kids feel sad that they didn’t have it and it makes them feel further separated from the community.
I am so glad I had it when I was super young and didn’t have to feel the pain that my father did.
And yes I know some operations have led to horrible consequences, and to that I say that it should have medical standby throughout the procedure, testing of the operator (some cases of std resulted in children dying).
@@Hellodjsjwjejd This is a complete lie. There are a lot of negative consequences, starting with a decrease in sensitivity, ending with drying and wrinkling in old age
@@etherzon where did you get such information? Do you have any sources to back up your claim?
@@Hellodjsjwjejd It`s just logic, it doesn`t need any source. All animals have an analogue of this organ, it's like removing eyelids of the eyes
@@etherzon I have friends (Jewish and Muslim) who went through the surgery when they became adults. They all told me the biggest noticing factor is the sensitivity loss. That being said someone who went through it at infancy wouldn’t feel any pain or negative consequences and that’s why these cultures always show the importance of doing it during infancy.
As a Detroit native, woman, and a healthcare professional I am HORRIFIED that this is happening so close to home. Im about to make these doctors famous if its the last thing I do.
The exact same procedure given the exact same reasoning is occurring to children within your profession right now. Likely in the hospital you work in. Likely physicians you see daily have committed the genital mutilation.
And what have you done to call out male genital mutilation in hospitals? Nothing? Then shut your mouth.
Now how about a feature on Intact America and the women and male genital mutilation survivors in the U.S. "fighting back"?
Victims should be able to choose whichever "non essential" body part to remove from their circumciser
@@ding9633
I think their necks are useless extra tissue
CONSERVATIVE culture at its best. every time conservatives, no matter what country, life is horrible
This ain't conservative culture its Islamic culture.
Unless you're arguing that all those African and middle eastern foreign women are Republicans.
Yeah? Really? You know a lot of Republicans who support this? Know a lot of Orthodox Christians to do this to their daughters? Name one Conservative thinker in the west who supports this? Its a Radical Islam problem and we all know it. And the conservative/right wing side is not the one who supports Islamic culture in the West.
@@dannyarcher438 you missed my point. conservatives, no matter what country always have problems with the people because they like to throw away progressive attitudes to an ever changing world. conservatives in the west have their own versions of oppsression and archaic destructive values. it wasnt long ago that western conservatives thought homosexuality was a mental illness. whats with conservatives wanting to control sexuality and sexual function so much?
How ironic. When "conservatives" criticize the practice they are called "Islamophobic bigots". You are a phucking hypocrite. If the evangelical right is the religion of the Republican party, then fundamentalist Islam is the religion of the Democratic party. The leftists pander to the Islamist without reading the theological literature that underlays the doctrines. Liberalism is weakness, and leftism is Islamic.
@Bill Anderson it's a conservativism from an entirely different culture. If you can't tell the difference between being against big government, taxes and late term abortions, and being for chopping off people's heads and genital mutilation, you're so part of the problem.
And the top states where women are mor at risk of female genital mutilation are California, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Washington, Virginia, and Texas. Everyone of these states went for Democrat in the 2016 election except Texas.
States without laws against female genital mutilation include Washington, Hawaii, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont. Tell me are those conservative states?
How this is happening in the US is beyond me! And for a judge to lift the ban fgm is DISGUSTING and HORRIBLE!!!
It’s equal rights. You can’t ban genital mutilation for girls while allowing boys to continue to suffer.
Violated the 14 th amendment equal protection under the law.
i cant believe this doesn't have more views, there's a Huge population of women who had to go through this in america and I had no idea
Don’t ignore the 1.1 million American boys who suffer genital mutilation (circumcision) every year. 140million American Men such as myself are victims of hemi-castration
@@endcgm9277 the video is about FGM so i commented about FGM
@@sagapopapagalos
Just because the video is sexist doesn’t mean you have to be as well
The vast majority of victims of genital mutilation are men. They exist in the same room as you at all times within your very culture. They need your support.
@@endcgm9277you may want to google the definition of sexism. this is an educational video focusing specifically on a small portion of a global issue. I'm sorry you think that a video focusing on women is sexist.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN FROM THERE OWN PARENTS
Sending so much love and healing energy to these women and anyone dealing with this horrible experience. We need to change this. It is not okay
How about suffervwith us and speak up when people think it's ok to circumcise boys at birth and girls at a young age
@@MB-cw5iw absolutely
There are laws to protect women already. None for boys. Sure, We need to think about women more HAHA nerd
Thank all of you women for being so brave. Bless you!
Dude. This the age of equality. Deal with like men do.
@@phakyuu5028 typical moid with absolutely zero empathy. i'll never want to be equal to someone like you.
This hurt me just hearing about it God
Why is this talked about as an issue, but male circumcision isnt???
Pure American hypocrisy.
It is? Have you ever tried googling it?
Infuriating that Federal ban not enforced!!
As well as bans on assault, battery, SA of a child, etc, yet American men can’t even get their day in court
This is so horrible it's not only happening in developing countries but also developed nation such as in the USA. This must stop!
It’s been happening to boys in the US since the late 1800s. We’re the land of the hemi-castrated slaves and the home of the quiet cowards rather than the land of the free and the home of the brave.
This was topic 40 years ago already and it will be topic in 40 years still.
No it won’t
I agree ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hope not. Unless if it's being referred to in the past tense.
I'm outraged. I didn't know. I just assumed it was totally illegal. Unbelievable.
It *technically* is, under pre-existing assault laws. Amputating healthy tissue from someone by force is already a crime, but the federal prohibition specifying FGM as such was what was shot down. In the states without specific laws, there's still a chance with the current laws. I'm outraged regardless-legal recourse won't undo the violation.
A minor form is legal for men and no one talks about that. It’s unconstitutional to ban hoodectomy without banning circumcision. You can’t eradicate FGM without eradicating circumcision
Male genital mutilation is legal and common in the US
I’m sad to say, I was completely ignorant to this topic until watching “orange is the new black”.. but I’m glad I now know. Peace be with these women. And all women.
And all men. I am a victim
The only way to ban it is to ban circumcision as well. Ban both or ban neither.
I wonder if circumcision could be considered Genital mutilation?
Male circumcision is not “considered” mutilation…it *IS* genital circumcision
It is by definition
But, but, what about the white male patriarchy?
It doesn't exist
Why r u weaponising all the pain these women are subjected to and pushing it for your own agenda… should be ashamed of yourself
You mean all the victims of MGM?
Fighting back agaist who? Their family?
Anyone who supports it.
What else besides the vacuum between your ears do you want to display to the internet? It's so painfully obvious.
Jacob Staten only people from poor country support this
@@elgro3204 and yet there are people in America who support it, so we need to stop them here snd work our way outward.
@@jacobstaten2366 Circumcisers need to be stopped....................from living
This is horrible
This is f****** horrible I have never been so angry. This practice needs to stop harming women. This is why abortion and prostitution should be legal and protected underneath the law. You shouldn't be able to tell people what to do with their bodies it makes me sick that these women's have been scarred like this. God bless all these women
Please don’t ignore the male victims of circumcision.
I think this should be absolutely a crime in all cases. I think abortion should be allowed in certain cases. I cried so hard for these women
How do you circumcise them, and why is this getting much more publicity than male mutilation...
Bem. Mulheres têm uma longa história de abusos e violências
@Bill Anderson Perhaps it was because it was YOUR choice and it was probably done to address an issue you were having.
Blado exactly, thank you blado. Why isnt the male side being talked about more. Me being a male, or at least last time i checked ahaha, i sympathyse with my brothers who had to go through this without their own consent. It seems to me like a violation of rights even IF theyre babies man.
Julie Goodrich thank you julie goodrich, your comment made me feel a huge sense of relief that i wasnt the only one who thought this practice was weird and seemingly, unnecessary. Good to know others also think its weird. When it comes to dating i always get that question of circumcision lol idk why. But people give me a look of almost shock when i tell them im not. Is circumcision that normal now?
This shit should be stopped for both men and women
I think if parents are aware of or initiate any type of abuse. Then they should be held accountable for the choices they make for their children.
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All while you ignore male genital mutilation in America. Bravo.
There is an organization based in Senegal called Tostan run by a lady called Molly Melchling. They have had a lot of success combating FGM. If u want to know more I recommend them.
I want to know
I hope they oppose MGM as well
When will vice make a video on circumcision and male genital mutilation over 50% of men in the Us are circumcised and it is genital mutilation.
That's 90% of males and on average 60% are cut each year.
here in Canada, Justin Trudeau got all triggered and offended when an MP called female genital mutilation "barbaric".
I love me some weeds, but there were some voters whose single issue vote was devoted purely to wanting pot legalized, so they voted for a guy who would legalize pot but also ended up bringing ISIS fighters into the country. Whomp
Source?
What did the MP say about male genital mutilation?
Circumcision for boys is benifit but what is female circumcision
Let’s get something straight, just like male foreskin circumcision, the horror of FGM has very little to do with the physical pain of the anmputation itself. The true horror is living a sexually mature adult life with your sexual organ either desensitized, or entirely gone because it was amputated.
I just found out about this today !!!! Absolutely terrible and should never take place !!!!!! Millions of women disfigured for what??????? I’m confused ?? What’s the purpose of this ****!!!!! We need to stop this !
Millions of American boys are victimized every year. 140 million American men are hemi-castrated.
How can she say it's not religious or cultural? It literally says in the Bible to do circumcision. Countries in Africa do circumcision as a "gateway to manhood". It IS religious and cultural.
@Supreet Virk Truthful Sikh Jesus Christ himself was circumcized. Luke 1:59. All his apostles were circumcized and apostle Paul circumcized timothy Acts 16:3. So yeah...Judaism, Islam, AND Christianity all push this barbaric practice onto people. "Be like Jesus, circumcize".
Bro that’s MALE circumcising and it’s completely different to fgm
So you support female circumcision as cultural and religious and parental choice as well, or are you a hypocrite?
@@Ela-gv7tryep - the man can still feel the arousal with circumcision and enjoyment but FGM there’s nothing but pain
How about them boys though? Not a peep.
Didn't Vice Live do a video on male circumcision?
@@penny4thought168 bro would you shut up? both of them are issues and just accept both are.
I didn't know they were doing it in the US,it should be up 2 the person if they want it not the parents.Whatever happened 2 assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping,holding some1 against there will,intention 2 commit bodily harm and torture ????
Someone should try torturing a circumciser and see if it's "legal"?
How come that people can
" do "this to little kids ,but we can,t "talk" about it ?
this needs to Stop... its not right under no circumstances this should ever take place, it breaks my heart 😢 to no that people practice this painful act on children
That was abuse. Religious/ritual abuse. Anyone & it does not matter WHAT religion they believe in & actively practice, it doesn't matter WHAT skin colour what heritage you are from, mutilating a child's sexual organ/body is an act against their human rights. PERIOD. The fact that one of those woman said their mother took her to the baseement of their relatives house to get that procedure done ?? That isn't normal that type of thing is seen in ritual abuse reports. The child will believe this is normal yet thousands of other children did not undergo this. The child cannot understand that this adult, the person who the child TRUSTS, is humiliating the child's body & psyche by mutilating their genitals. They do not understand that !! The child will grow up believing it was for a purpose. These predatory adults prey on the innocence of children !! I feel such remorse for each of these women. I hope their lives today are much more peaceful
exacto! ud lo ha dicho con toda la verdad .
Why is the word islam not in here?
Because no verse in the Quran or in any hadith does it say to do this. Only Male circumcision is allowed.
Joe Mack
Males are required to be circumcised in BOTH Judaism and Islam.
@@throast5809 so how come fgm is in Dearborn Michigan where there is tons of muslims?
@@JD-kp6pt male circumcision is done for health reasons its not harmful fgm is harmful
Because then they'd have to acknowledge how religion drives MGM.
You bring imagrants they bring there habits
It is imperative that we pursue and criminally prosecute the criminals and monsters that perform and in any way participate in this obviously criminal act of FGM. The criminals that perform this criminal act need to be jailed for lengthy periods of time and should be sued into oblivion to compensate the victims. We need legislation to outlaw this heinous practice that is unacceptable in any civilized country. What’s next if legislation is not passed and enforcement is not vigorously enforced? That it’s all right to cut off a woman’s breasts or blind her because women are Second-class downtrodden citizens in backward savage misogynistic societies?
And MGM
This is some dark ages shit.....
This is is why I first liked vice, no political parties, just pure journalism on pure evil. Cuz I didn’t know this existed. Keep it up!
Boi.. wait till their liberals propaganda show up on ur notification
How could you not know circumcision is common in the US?!?!
It's also practised in Canada as well. A personal conversation I had with a young woman from Somalia who told me that "a woman in London, Ontario performs both the original FGM AND sewing the woman up AGAIN AFTER giving birth. How the woman gets' re-opened again 'by the man' is horrific, barbaric and EVIL. It IS an evil practice.
Stop whining dudes get cut all the time we ain't whineing
Some of us are but I'll still upvote because women tell us not to whine about it.
I'm complaining about MGM
yeah lol imagine if we joked about female genital mutilation all the time.
WHY aren’t you complaining?!?
You SHOULD be! Grow a pair and speak up!!!!
This is absolutely disgusting. More power to the men and women who have gone through this.
well i live in turkey (i mean turkey is a middle easthern country) and i never heard this until isis i heard isis doing that thats all wtf this is terrorism level thing
Turkey isn't Arab tho
@EruditeSiren di'Cosmos Turkey was always civilized numbskull
@EruditeSiren di'Cosmos true but as a remind white culture isnt civizilation not only whites ı mean white culture is civilize right but for example japan culture is civilize too or slavian culture which is white too but little different ı hope someda middle easth can be civilize too as itself not like an european copy
@@italiansoldierfromww2460 yes but ı searched it n turkey there is some ppl who trying to be arab (they re not too much but not less too) and they re doing this but with their willing u cant force ppl in turkey cause police and specifically soldiers ready for that kind of extreme islamic situations but its very sad
*I won't imagine this...too much.*
This practice is happening right now in America! They are not charging the Drs because of It racist to stop muslims!
STOP CULTURE WHO AGREE WITH IT, NOT MUSLIMS WE ARE NOT ON THERE ! STOP BEING SO RUDE WITH US
Bro this is not a Muslim thing (as someone who is very anti religion)
Many doctors in the US do it for money. 1.1 million boys every year have their genitals stolen and sold for profit. It’s vivisection and live organ harvesting.
Good I am glad they are fighting back.
Not trying to take away the importance of it happening to these women, but it happens to men as well. They just get you when you're a *baby* fresh out of the womb so you can't even remember it.
And you probably will never know who did it to you so you wont know who to hunt down when you grow up
This is one of the worst things
A seven year old girl wont be able to say no.
Nor a 7 yo boy
Disgusting. Too bad the people responsible won't be stopped.
This needs to be talked about and completely illegal all over the world
FGM is terrible and should not take place, but it is not the equivalent to male circumcision and trying to equate them is dishonest.
MGM=FGM
This is why Islam needs reform and needs to stop being barbaric
*FGM has tribal roots, hence why it's most prevalent in Africa. There are non-Muslims who practice FGM such as the Maasai people, and most Muslims around the world don't practice FGM. It's almost unheard of in South Asia where there are large Islamic populations. Those Muslims who practice it do so because of culture and sect, not religion.*
Don’t leave out Christianity and judaism
This happens because of Islam
Religion ....all the problems of the world summed up in one word religion
Religion poisons everything
I can’t imagine the painnnnnn!!!! I’m so sorry that they had to go through this or anyone in the future that will too.
This should be against the law in all states.
LOCK THEM ALL UP. MONSTERS!!!
How is Female Mutilation not a global crisis? It's disgusting this still happens today.
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December 7th 2024
I wish I could be there and protect those girl with the nails on my fingers if I had to. This makes me so unbelievably angry.
You’ll be shocked to learn circumcision is performed on millions of American boys every year
I'm curious how cercumsision and not getting your kids vaccinated have gone this long without being labeled child abuse.
its not really a thing in the middle east, even in our class no one knew about it when a girl from Africa brought it up, and no there is no such thing in Islam, i think it's more a cultural thing, i'm seriously sad for those ladies, it should be more talked about.
Middle East has FGM. The prophet accepted the practice and multiple hadithd support it. It is condone in Islam and loads of Muslim scholars see it as Islamic Sunnah
@@mimilocke5650 The issue of female circumcision is not a religious issue of worship at its origin, but it is an issue due to customs and traditions. Many scholars have said that it is not obligatory for women, and we do not know of a hadith in which the Prophet ordered his wives or daughters to circumcise
, there is hadith that talk about circumcision but not necessarily about FGM.
and its not popular in the middle east taking in consideration there is 16 country FGM is mostly practiced in the north african part.
I've never heard of this before, wow😨.
Where do you live that you never heard circumcision was common in the US, and that most American men are victims?
I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET THAT DAY
I HVE SEEN MY BLOOD THROBBING ALL OVER I STIL SUFFER FROM THE SIDE EFFECTS SUCH AS NO SEX PLEASURES INFECTION AND THE TRAUMA AND ITCHING ALL OVER MY VAGINAL AM CRYING SOO BAD RN COZ I KNOW HOW THAT PAIN FEELS I FEEL SOO UNWORTHY I FEEL LIKE AM NOT WOMAN ENOUGH 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Do you plan on surgery to undo it someday?
I feel extremely sorry for your pain
@@thecoasterboss9205 you cant undo that experience...
thats literally how a man feels when he gets circumsied
Horrible!