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Upon careful reflection, I support the call for our Legislature to
speedily enact a law that will clearly ban FGM for under 18 years-old.
However in the case of above 18 years let the individual’s choice prevail.
In canvassing for banning initiation of girls below 18 years, it brings to mind circumcision of boys below 18 years for health (cleanliness) reason. In this case, should it be an exception because of the beneficial nature to keep the penis clean? I hold the view that if indeed circumcision of boys is related to health then there is a justification for continuing the practice.
Is it mutilation that is done during initiation? Did the word emanate because certain Sowies do mutilate the bodies of girls/women? We need to have stories/facts from girls/women in Sierra Leone in that regard. We need evidence in that regard. I thus call on Sierra Leonean women who have been mutilated by initiation, cutting of the clitoris, to speak up so that we have tangible facts/evidence to back up/support the word “mutilation”. There’re many girls/women who have had their clitoris cut off yet are highly sexual active and sensitive. Mutilation according to Oxford Dictionary is “infliction of serious damage on something”. In the light of this definition of mutilation, can one safely say the cutting of the clitoris is mutilation for all? I note that some cutting are extreme thus leading to mutilation in the strict sense; whereas in others the cutting has not affected the women and girls in anyway. I’m personally undecided in this regard. Food for thought.
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