From my understanding of female circumciscion, the damage done is so great that I didn’t think it was irreversible. The object I thought was that the woman would never receive pleasure from sex...ie; isn’t the clitoris made non-functional? I am not a doctor, what do I know?
That is exactly what it does. In some socities in Africa and to a lesser degree the middle east a woman has no chace of ever marrying if she hasn’t been altered because they fear she will be loose so they make sure that she will never have any pleasure. It is mostly practised by Africans nowdays but some ME countries like Syria still do it. It is estimated that 80% of women in Egypt have been circumcised. I don’t understand why the femnists in this country ignore this sort of thing?
That is exactly what it does. In some societies in Africa and to a lesser degree the middle east a woman has no chance of ever marrying if she hasn’t been altered because they fear she will be loose so they make sure that she will never have any pleasure. It is mostly practised by Africans nowdays but some ME countries like Syria still do it. It is estimated that 80% of women in Egypt have been circumcised. I don’t understand why the femnists in this country ignore this sort of thing?
If I'm not mistaken, it isn't the clitoris that's removed, but the prepuce--the homologue to the foreskin in the male. The prepuce is attached to the apex of the labia minora. During coitus, the penis tugs on the labia, which in turn tug on the prepuce, pulling it back-and-forth over the clitoris, and it's this stimulation that results in pleasure. Take away the prepuce, and you remove the pleasure from coitus.