Everyone believes this - the elders prepare you for that day. An uncircumcised woman is marginalized and will never marry. The midwives who perform the operation are powerful and greatly feared. Men, though they are unaware of it, are behind the origins of the practice, which gives them power. They initially refuse to take about the question, and the people are fearful of losing their culture, she pointed out.
Culture is dynamic and one has to know how to find the space.
They inevitably think about their daughters. Some are ashamed. Most women don't know themselves either, pointed out Waggeh. They don't look at themselves, they don't know how they are made, why they menstruate, what the clitoris does, how the sexes interact. So we organised health classes, and it is exciting to see how women discover what is happening with their bodies.