被禁止的性行为与性暴力

性暴力: 性器官毁损: 藉口 3

卫生的藉口
为女性性器官毁损辩护的论点简直就泄露其拥戴者的医学知识匮乏。例如，在一些部落，人们认为这种手术会增加生育能力或认为阴蒂头对生孩子来说是一种妨碍，因而必须提前仔细地切除。有些人确信这种手术会预防女孩阴道脓肿和避免许多其它的健康问题。

惟有通过教育才能消除这样的无知。

爱美的藉口
在许多部落里，未被毁损的女性性器官被人认为是难看的和令人厌恶的，而女性美的最普遍的观念要求性器官应该以某种传统的方式得到改造。其中的某些部落也让她们相信“未环切的”阴户有一种臭味道，并让她们相信这种手术会除去这种味道。

这些根深蒂固的信念难以改变。

Prohibited Sexual Behavior and Sexual Violence

Sexual Violence: Mutilation of Female Sex Organs: Justifications 3

Hygiene
Some arguments for the mutilation of female sex organs simply reveal the medical ignorance of their proponents. For example, in some communities people believe that the operation increases fertility or that the clitoral glans is an obstruction to the birth of a baby and therefore must be removed well in advance. Others are convinced that the operation protects the girls from vaginal abscesses and many other health problems.
Such ignorance can be overcome only by education.

Beauty
In many communities, unmutilated female sex organs are considered ugly and disgusting, and the prevailing ideal of female beauty requires that they should be altered in some traditional way. Some of these communities have also persuaded themselves that an “uncircumcized” vulva has a bad odor, and that the operation will remove it.
These deep-seated convictions are hard to change.