Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or another injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The practice has no health benefits for girls and women. The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers.
FGM can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, later cysts, genital tissue swelling, infections e.g. tetanus, wound healing problems, injury to surrounding genital tissue, shock, as well as complications in childbirth, and increased risk of newborn deaths.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia where FGM is concentrated. It aims to ensure premarital virginity and marital fidelity.
FGM is in many communities believed to reduce a woman's libido and therefore believed to help her resist extramarital sexual acts and also it is believed that being cut increases marriageability, FGM

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