Ritual female genital surgery among bedouin in Israel

Abed Asali; Naif Khamaysi; Yunis Aburabia; Simha Letzer; Buteina Halihal; Moshe Sadovsky; Benjamin Maoz; R. H. Belmaker

doi:10.1007/BF01541836

Ritual female genital surgery among bedouin in Israel

Abed Asali
, Naif Khamaysi
, Yunis Aburabia
, Simha Letzer
, Buteina Halihal
, Moshe Sadovsky
, Benjamin Maoz
, R. H. Belmaker

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Abstract

Ritual female genital operations are common in many parts of the world, with varying degrees of mutilation from clitoridectomy and removal of the labia to removal of the clitoral prepuce. Interviews of 21 Bedouin women in southern Israel revealed the practice to be normative in several tribes. However, physical examination of 37 young women from those tribes at a gynecological clinic revealed only small scars on the labia in each woman. Bedouin in southern Israel may offer a model of evolution of female circumcision into a nonmutilative ritual incision.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	571-575
Number of pages	5
Journal	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume	24
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541836
State	Published - 1 Oct 1995

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Keywords

Bedouin
clitoridectomy
clitoris
female circumcision
genital surgery
labia majora
labia minora

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General Psychology

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