For the female circumcision with the coming of the ‘white’ man this act was dubbed dangerous and unethical. We do see their point of view on this, same as how they pushed for male circumcision to be done in hospitals where as the traditional one still worked for them.
The ‘saving’ of most girls from this act does work but it works for the few who do manage to escape or whose parents are logic enough to know its danger and send them away before the time comes. As this happens still many girls go through this and are then married of since they are dubbed ‘ready’ for marriage.
As I mentioned earlier, this practices have been there for many generations and have been successful, so at this point you cannot go to a practicing society and tell them that this act is wrong or ‘forbidden’. Rather we should look at another way to solve this. First there are reasons this act is done, one of the reasons being that they are transiting into adulthood. Once you understand why the do what they do then you can proceed to know how you can undertake the problem.
The best way to give an alternative way to facilitate the move from childhood to adulthood and make then communities understand why its good and safer than what they are used to doing, and how they can partake in it as a society.
Cutting off the practice is like taking away part of their culture but giving counter-actions is a way of diversifying and evolving their culture.
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