 
The 6 February marks the international day against female circumcision, or female genital mutilation.
The term comes from the Latin female circumcision fibula, brooch. It is a practice that has exclusively cultural origins and non-religious, Although it is mostly common in Islamic countries.
Infibulation is practised on girls in adolescence, often without any type of anesthesia. The operation consists in exporting of clitoris, the labia minora and part of the labia majora, and ending with the seam of the vulva; It is "torn" only at the time of marriage to allow sexual intercourse and childbirth. After birth, the vulva is sewn up.
The history of this practice is very ancient and shrouded in mystery; born probably in ancient Egypt, It was also practiced in Rome as a measure to control the sexuality of the slaves. They were and are the women to practice female circumcision to other women, This is essentially a practice that is passed from mother to daughter. Mostly it is lived as a kind of initiation rite, and mothers, Although they have tried to turn physical and psychological pain that involves this operation, they want their daughters will be subject because otherwise they would not be accepted by the company, because it would be considered "impure" beings, Unable to marry.
In the world are more than 100 million women who undergo this treatment, in more than forty countries, and with peaks that reach the 100% of the female population in Egypt and Somalia. Even in large western cities registering hundreds of thousands of women infibulate, and only in Italy are more than forty thousand.
Even proponents of multiculturalism can remain indifferent to this custom and tradition so little justifiable, whose meaning is synonymous with only the loss of individuality and of their fundamental rights, In addition to countless sacrifices and sufferings.
Maria
