How to respect and live with their husbands, how to take care of relatives, when to get into sexual intercourse and when not to, etc. They graduate in the yotuneeet ceremony with a mark of honour tattooed on their upper arms and new names to show that they have undergone all the stages of circumcision and they have now become adults. According to long held beliefs, female circumcision make the girls confident, resilient and ready to face new challenges without fear. It makes them fertile and ease the reproductive processes. The Saboats believe that uncircumcised girls are unable to procure successful births as the clitoris would grow and block the vaginal opening during childbirth.
Circumcision also makes the girls clean and hygienic.
In addition to this, very important secrets of harmonious marriages are passed on to the initiates. Finally, circumcision ceremonies allow the parents of the daughters to share in new privileges of the society and receive various gifts as a show of honour in keeping with the age-old custom. The myths and beliefs aside, many of, which are fragile in light of scientific evidence, the question of whether or not the positive aspects of female circumcision can be inculcated differently, instantly appear. According to Esther Cherop, a circumciser and traditional birth attendant from Kopsiro, this is possible. In her experience, circumcised women undergo difficult births compared to the uncircumcised ones whose vaginal capacity to dilate during labour is not hindered.