Gender and Sexuality: The Myth of Female Genital Mutilation
The rights to good health, fulfilment and happiness should not be segregated. Boys and girls, men and women, as created by God are entitled to the right to live in health, feel fulfilled and enjoy a certain level of happiness. In some parts of Nigeria, the female gender is expected to be chaste as w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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David Publishing Company
2021
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Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 5, Pages: 231-244 |
| Further subjects: | B
Myth
B sexuality and culture B Gender B genital B mutilation |
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| Summary: | The rights to good health, fulfilment and happiness should not be segregated. Boys and girls, men and women, as created by God are entitled to the right to live in health, feel fulfilled and enjoy a certain level of happiness. In some parts of Nigeria, the female gender is expected to be chaste as well as inactive sexually. In order to maintain chastity in young girls and keep married women faithful during marriage, females are made to go through circumcision medically known as female genital mutilation (FGM). The age and kind of mutilation varies from tribe to tribe. However, this precaution is not reciprocal in male, because the man has the right to decide to be faithful to his spouse or not. Drawing from primary and secondary data, the paper seeks to solve the puzzle: Does genital mutilation reduce the sexual drive of a female? Primary data were obtained from focus group discussions and interview, while secondary data were obtained through relevant literature pertaining to female genital mutilation in Nigeria were obtained from journals, textbooks, selected documents, and Internet. A review of these articles was conducted and after critical appraisal, using narrative analysis, the data extracted from the articles regarding FGM were analysed. Using a comparative scope covering the northern and southern parts of Nigeria, the paper argues that FGM is a women rights violation. The paper therefore recommends that females be allowed to enjoy equal sexual rights as their male counterparts. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2021.05.004 |