Disgusted. Female genital mutilation occurring in the U.S.

Barbaric.

Disgusting.

I have the same opinion of people who practice male genital mutilation for religious or personal reasons.

 Male genital multilation. Otherwise known as circumcision. It should be outlawed too, other than in cases of medical necessity.

Maybe foreskin is the male clitoris. Do you know how many nerve endings a male loses when he's circumcised?

Clitoral orgasms are only one type of orgasm. They are the most common and easiest to achieve for most women. They are not the only type, however.
A woman without a clitoris is still physically capable of an orgasm.

That is horrible! It is not something I would expect in this country.

the foreskin is not structurally the same as the clitoris, removing the clitoris is more like cutting away the glans. The more analogous matter to male circumcision would be removal of the clitoral hood.

I'm not in favor of either one, but comparing apples to apples is useful.

Anatomical experts argue that thw structure that generates orgasm in women is one organ, the clitoral complex, which includes the clitoris itself and sensitive tissue surrounding the urethra and in the shallow space of the vagina. There are not types of female orgasm, there is only female orgasm generated by the same organ stimulated in different ways. See 2014 study in Clinical Anatomy, peer reviewed.

It seems odd to howl of the lost nerve endings in male circumcision and then minimize the impact to female sexuality of female genital mutilation.

I hope they prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.

I read this wonderful book called Desert Flower by Waris Dirie, its the memoir of a woman who grew up a desert nomad in Somalia, was circumcised, then moved to London to be a house slave for the Somali ambassador. She was not allowed to go to school as a minor or learn English. She met the model Iman during this time and was shocked and saddened that she would see her in this condition and not speak up. She went to the hospital once in London with problems related to her circumcision which gave her terrible heavy periods since they blood couldn't exit her body. The hospital had a male Somalian nurse come in to translate for her, and instead of translating correctly, he kept telling her you should be ashamed to have this reversed so nothing was done. She later was discovered by a photographer and became a model and ran away to NYC.

omg. So the parents were taking the daughters to get this done?! Are the parents going to be charged?

I didn't know much about female genital mutilation until I started reading about it awhile ago including some first person accounts. Female genital mutilation doesn't just mean that women can't enjoy sex. Most of the time (from what I read) when it happens it means that they suffer for the rest of their lives every time they try to urinate because they are sewn shut so tightly it hurt to do so. The first person accounts I read happened when the women were usually around age 5 forced upon them. It was brutal and excruciatingly painful. Not only was the clitoris cut but the inner labia too the outer labia was sewn shut. The tiniest hole was left for urination. From the first person accounts I read these women suffered all of their lives. Their were two books and each was able to escape and make it to the west. One was able to have surgery to correct her situation. The other, from what I remember, was still searching for a surgeon.

This post by the OP is very important but this is happening more frequently that we like to think here in the USA. The parents don't need a doctor to do this. They don't use doctors in their home countries. We need to do all we can to stamp this out here in the USA and abroad especially for the children who have no say in this happening to them.

Zingermack, the article you posted was very interesting and when this is happening to an ADULT woman who gives her consent I see no problem with it-who am I to say no to what they see as their religious and cultural practice. But I truly believe in my heart that female genital mutilation occurs most of the time to unwilling young children and that is certainly not okay especially when it is happening illegally in the USA. We have to make our laws stronger against this and not only punish the person who performs this, but also the parents who take their child to this monsters.

They made it into a movie, too. I think I watched it on Starz a number of years ago.

Monstrous and barbaric. Poor girls.

     I thought this sounded familiar. I watched that movie too. Does anyone remember what it was called? Amazing film! I'm going to put the book on my goodreads to read list. Thanks for mentioning the book Annabella along with the author's name. Off to add it to my list now. 

BTW, just realized I might not be remembering the details of female genital mutilation exactly correctly as I specified in my post. My brain has been injured and I still have trouble forming memories and keeping details exactly correct to this day due to the 20 ECT treatments I had in 2009 and 2010. I could be wrong in what I remembered in some of the detail-just wanted to mention that. I do know it is a lot more involved and does much more damage than male circumcision that we have done here in the west for many years. Everything in my post is what I remember from what I've read. 

Why ANY parent would allow their child to be subject to this inhumane procedure is just beyond my comprehension...if your beliefs are that deeply rooted in your homeland, MOVE BACK THERE.

And take your crazy with you.

Cindy