INFIBULATION

 'INFIBULATION'

This is the practice of excising the clitoris and labia of a girl or woman and stitching together the edges of the vulva to prevent sexual intercourse. It is the complete scraping of vagina and stitching it together to prevent the girl from having sex.The vagina is sealed leaving a small hole for the girl to menstruate or urinate. 

The girl's legs are tied with rope for days so that the wound can heal.  It usually take 15 to 40 days for the wound to heal. During this period the girl's legs remain tied and she is prevented from moving. 

Basically, the stitches are meant to be reopen by her husband on the wedding night so he can have intimate with her.Imagine someone opening stitches and immediately having sex with her. Just imagine the pains, I mean serious pains!! 

Imagine the traumatic experience, the pains the girl will pass through.Is it not better to allow her decide if she will marry as a virgin or not than to do this? 

At birth many women have to be cut again because the vagina opening is too small for the passage of the baby. It also cause urinary tract infections in women, fistulae and infertility etc. 

THE WORST THING IS THAT THIS IS DONE TO WOMEN BY WOMEN IN AFRICA !!! I THINK THIS IS WHERE FEMINISM SHOULD START.

This is what African feminists should be fighting for not who should wash plates or cook food, or other petty irrelevant issues. 

FYI, this is still practiced in some part of Africa till date.According to research, it was also practiced in North America,  Australia and New Zealand.

It's disheartening

Say No To INFIBULATION!

Girls do not deserve this ill treatment for being girls.