#17 She Said What!

Tonight at dinner- I'm not sure how this came about really- the women were talking about female circumcision. Tow of them were circumcised when they were 7 days old...it is part of the Orthodox religion. I asked them why and their reply confirmed what I had thought. They said.."If you aren't circumcised then you are wild and you won't be a good wife or mother". I had learned that in one of my classes that in Egypt the Orthodox religion does it as well as a way to control women. I tried to explain through Hiwot that the part they cut off is only for sex...so that women enjoy sex as much as men. This then got inot a 10 min. explanation of what I was talking about. Do you know how hard it it to explain that? Very hard.