Dear Men, I am called the Clitoris, It’s in your best interest to protect me
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the weapons used to disable our reproductive organPC: Getty images
However, Gambian Men do not know me because of the war against me which is as old as the country itself. Decades ago, when my host was born as a baby girl, I was eliminated immediately after birth in a tradition called Female Genital Mutilation. She grows up into a woman without me. When she becomes your wife, you wonder why she is not responding to your touches and vibe. You work harder on her body, touching and romancing all the places, yet you do not get the arousal result you dream of because I am missing. As time went by, you lost interest in her due to excessive dryness because I, the lube that lubricates her vagina is missing. Your sexual life becomes boring and frustrating and you start looking outside for me in other women.
I am the clitoris, I am the pleasure button of the female sexual organ and all other organs are answerable to me. I am like a wifi, when turned on, the entire body of a woman connects to me without requiring a password. Dear Gambian men, do you know, you should join anti-FGM groups and individuals to protect me? Just a mere stroke of me with your lips or fingers and adding a little pressure going up and down will make your woman melt and soaking wet ready for you to devour her as you like.
Some men who know me, turn me into a lollipop, licking, sucking to satiate their women to orgasm.
Dear Gambian men, as the world marks Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Mutilation, Let’s remind ourselves of what is at stake when we sit there and do nothing to stop these gruesome traditional practices against our daughters, sisters, nieces and future wives. FGM is not a woman’s business, it is our business as men and women.
Yes, it is the girl child who bleeds and is deprived of her most precious treasure, the clitoris but when she becomes your wife, you both battle the lifetime consequences together.
Dear Gambian men, during the attempt to repeal the FGM Law, they cajoled you into believing that the clitoris is a mere skin that they cut and throw away. They misled you that other organs on a woman’s body can replace the clitoris. Do you know the obsession behind marrying “suruwa muso” (Wolof women)?
This is because they do not undergo Female Genital Mutilation but they make you believe that they are more submissive than every other woman out there.
This year’s theme for Zero Tolerance Day for FGM is “stepping up the pace: strengthening alliances and building movements to end FGM.” Dear Gambian Men, You are our fathers, brothers, Uncles, and Husbands, what better alias can we have than you? They mutilated, sealed and sometimes removed both the labia minora and majora leaving us open to germs and infection. They leave us to battle with the lifetime consequences of FGM. Join us in protecting our sexual organs from the grips of this gruesome tradition that renders us disabled after we are born perfect.
To our religious, traditional and opinion leaders, we are not at war with you. You are our allies and we would like you to join us and listen to our pains and cries for help. Promiscuity is a choice and it has nothing to do with who has the clitoris and who hasn’t. As women, we know our bodies and we know how it feels living without our clitoris.
To the Government of the Gambia, as we mark Zero Tolerance Day for FGM, we call on you to implement the FGM Law to protect the next generation of girls from being mutilated and sealed. We called on the Government to work with the line ministries to work together on aggressive awareness-raising campaigns on the harmful effects of FGM on the health of women and girls.
Strengthening Alliances and building movements is necessary to end FGM in the Gambia. To the young people, Join us to protect your future wives from parting with their clitoris.
Author: Halimatou Ceesay
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