What is the benefits of female circumcision?

Answer 1

There are in fact no pros to female genital mutilation.

There are two procedures one is female circumcision which removes only the hood of the female's clitoris. 85% of female circumcision involves this. The remaining 15% involves infibulation, the clitoris and both labia are removed and the two sides of the vulva are sewn together. This leaves a very small opening for the women to urinate and pass menstrual blood through. This latter case is called Female Genital Mutilation. There is no good reason for this latter case which makes up 15% of the world wide cases.

This is not correct, but unfortunately a persisting error. The mere removal of the clitoral hood is close to non-existent. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies four types:

1. Partial or total removal of the clitoris and/or the prepuce (clitoridectomy).

2. Partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (excision)

3. Narrowing of the vaginal orifice with creation of a covering seal by cutting and appositioning the labia minora and/or the labia majora, with or without excision of the clitoris (infibulation)

4. All other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, for example: pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterization

Type 1 and 2 make the majority of the cases - about 85% worldwide, less than 1% of which consist in removing only the clitoral hood.

None of these four types has a benefit but they all can cause major damages - one of the reasons why all four of them are called "Female Genital Mutilation" (FGM) or "Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting". The term "Female Circumcision" is no longer appropriate.

(info: H. Postulart, Executive director of the Global Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation)

Despite the media references to Islam, Islam does not call for female circumcision of any kind. The practice happens mostly in Africa. The reasons to have it are cultural identity, historic practices and because in some tribes women would be considered an outcast if they failed to have it.

There is no passage in the Qur'an demanding the practice. Nevertheless, the content of some hadiths lead to the widespread opinion that the practice is at least recommended by the prophet. Consequently, many Imams do indeed promote the practice of FGM while others try to end it in their communities.

In fact female genital mutilation predates Islam and was also practiced in Europe until relatively recently.

It is seen as a hygienic practice in some tribes.

My source of information is a paper by Senior Seminar Paper by Andrea Nichols at the Southern Illinois University.

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This ugly, revolting, antiquated barbarity is now illegal in the UK, although as in many cases of domestic violence, especially against women, very hard to bring to court.

Answer 2

tere are none just as there are none for male circumcision.