We must be careful how we receive and decipher information from mainstream media about the motherland. While it is true that the way female circumsion is performed today is, in some cases, cruel and painful, it was not always like this. Female circumsion has been occuring for thousands and thousands of years and was practiced by all of the ancient cultures, much like male circumsion. It was not done then to either 1. make sex painful or 2. ensure the virginity of a girl. It was done in both case because the foreskin of the male and the clitoris of the female were thought to be 'supernumerary', that is, a part of our body that through genetic deterioration grew...but was not supposed to be there. The ancients felt that someone would not become fully a man or a woman if these extraneous things were not removed. And it wasn't performed by hacking or chopping back then either, believe it or not, the science that we had back then enabled the clitoris to be removed much the same way an umbilical cord is, painless. The mothers of Africa today retain the ancient memories that this needs to be done, but not how to do it correctly.....and only when oppresive religions overwhelmed Africa did this practice become a 'virginity insurance'.


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