This made my blood boil!

[abu nuwas]

i stopped reading after half way. it seems it's done as a truth operation., "when you see her privates you'll know she's not been had"
it's tearful. i did know the basics of what female circumcising was but never realised it was done and finished in such a way.
absolutely horrific.

it's so hard for me to comprehend how the value of virginity can be put before the health, well-being and suffering of a person.
even the mild form where they just cut off the clit, how, how, how can they do and allow it to continue to be done.

It had never occurred to me that the husband, or someone secretly on his behalf, had to rip the woman open-- what a honeymoon! And then again, and again. It went on to say that the women apparently did enjoy sex, the nervous system having adapted. How true this is, I don't know. But the idea of the women wandering around the house with making a noise with pots and pans, when they wanted sex, did make me smile, and I hope it's so. I do not know what competence the writer had; part of me felt that it was the most dreadful apology, of the type which might be seized upon by those who indulge in what is, undoubtedly, a barbaric and primitive practice.