Assessment of Sexual Troubles in Women with Female Genital Mutilation in Egyptian women

Abstract

Organization(W.H.O) is partial or total removal or injury of the female genital organs without a medical indication. It is classified into four types I, II, III, IV and is common in the middle east and Africa among religious and non religious groups. The term F.G.M was applied by the WHO on this female abuse to replace the public and some scholar publications used terms which misleads the population Such terms as sunna circumcision (removal of a small part or all of the prepuce now called types I and II FGM), a term which implies being ordered by Islam, inspite of Islamic scholar’s proofs that it has never been ordered by any of the prophet’s true orders or by any of the verses of the holy Quran, and that it predates Islamic times. On the contrary, most Islamic scholars insist that all types of FGM is prohibited in Islam because of the unneccesary forced body exposure, touch and injury, changing gods creations without an emergency request. Scholars proved that true female sunna circumcision, which was mentioned in the weakly supported hadeeth, (which is removal of minimal tissue from the prepuce), would require the help of pediatric surgeon and special instruments not primitive instruments, and so impossible for it to exist in the real world back then. Type III F.G.M, which is removal of a part, or all of the external genitalia and stitching the vaginal opening leaving a narrow opening (infabulation), and type lV, which is unclassified, includes any other assault as burning, stretching, scraping tissues around vaginal orifice (angurya cuts), or cutting the vagina (gishiri cuts). Immediate complications like bleeding, shock, infection, or delayed complications like recurrent urinary tract infection, scarring, anorgasmia are common. Families insist on this abuse regardless the consequences to avoid future adultery. According to Masters and Johnson, the clitoris is the center of orgasm, the phase during which the sexual tension gained during the excitement phase is releasd, and so, without it, difficulty of releasing sexual tension could occur.