Pubblico parte dell'intervento che il dott. Massimo Valli ha fatto nel corso dell'incontro dedicato alle Mutilazioni genitali femminili organized by the Associazione Trevisani nel Mondo (section Villorba) to Santandrà Povegliano. The report is very wide, but those who want the full text can make a request in writing carlo.silvano @ poste.it
[...] The reasons that have called us to here were discussed previously and not I dwell on.
I state that, not being an expert of the matter or on the theological level, nor on the sociological, or on that philosophy, but simply because the person, a Christian layman who asks questions and look / ask for answers, my intervention aims simply be a matter for reflection on the subject, almost one to ask questions cui ciascuno di noi può tentare di dare una risposta o sviluppare una propria riflessione come persona, come persona di fede, come persona nel contesto di esperienze in cui si trova a vivere. Tenterò, dunque, anche con l’aiuto di alcune fonti (che menzionerò di volta in volta), di offrire chiavi di introduzione al dibattito.
Desidero anche sottolineare che, per diverse ragioni, manca stasera una componente importante alla proposta: la presenza di una persona che sia culturalmente vicina alle comunità in cui la pratica è diffusa o, ancora più incisivamente, di una persona che l’abbia anche subita su di sé. Questa presenza avrebbe senz’altro la possibilità di darci un quadro più completo sulla question, as well as a cultural, emotional and also on the interior and religion. We rely in this regard, to address this significant gap in the next meeting, which will surely be the natural development of the reflection that we are confident will emerge tonight.
We can not disregard, for the sake of completeness, the maximum possible, from a historical point about the practice of infibulation.
History sull'infibulazione .
The practice of infibulation is widespread in many African and Asian countries, but rarely, especially in official documents, he mentions the fact that it was also practiced in the "civilized" ancient Rome.
From a historical perspective, the practice of female genital mutilation is very old. There are, in fact, precise explanations about its appearance. For some, it was born in a country and then spread to others, according to others, was born simultaneously in many countries of our small planet. For authors who support the latter theory, circumcision developed independently in different places and in different historical moments. On the basis of certain documentary data, from which we can afford to do the epidemiological surveys, it is likely that female circumcision is present, along with men, in some surveys of the Egyptian tombs of the VI dynasty (around 2340 BC). The oldest known source, which records the practice of circumcision, is Herodotus, who lived in the fifth century BC C. He states that excision was practiced by the Phoenicians, the Hittites, the Ethiopians and the Egyptians also. Even Stradone Soramus and argue that, in Rome and Athens, the practice was common and was intended to reduce female sexual desire. Later, Aetius and Paul of Aegina, respectively 500 and 700 AD, show a similar description and approve the operation itself, arguing that the clitoris should necessarily be removed before it could become too large, because, like being able to set itself up the male member would allow coitus lesbian. In addition, some archaeologists claim that the good conditions of Egyptian mummies attest to the practice of clitoridectomy, excision of the clitoris that is female. It should be noted that the term "female circumcision" betrays a Latin derivation. The fibula, a brooch that served to keep hooked the robe was used by the Romans on their wives, in order to prevent illicit relations, and was also set to male and female slaves to prevent early fatigue with sexual intercourse and pregnancy of the second which would have hindered the work. In times closer to us the first documentary source of some relief is an issue of The Lancet, 1822, reporting the experience of a German surgeon, Graefe, who claimed to have successfully treated by excision of the clitoris, a girl suffering from "excessive masturbation and nymphomania." This mutilation
so-called "therapeutic" is part of a fairly widespread opinion in the nineteenth century, especially in England, which he attributed to masturbation, a number of functional disorders of the brain and nervous system ranging from epilepsy to insanity and that he placed clitoridectomy in the intervention of the possibility of curing these disorders. In fact, since the second half of the nineteenth century Victorian puritanism had transformed the moral question of masturbation in a medical condition that had become a significant problem. From then
and especially in France, Germany and England, there has been a real widespread practice of female circumcision, is to treat sexual dysfunction (excessive masturbation and nymphomania) that thought disorder (hysteria, epilepsy, catalepsy, melancholia and madness) .
In confirmation of this trend is worth mentioning the work of some famous doctors of the time. Isak Baker Brown, of the Medical Society of London, in 1865 argued that "... masturbation cause peripheral nerve stimulation pubic bone, which in turn causes disease and death in the following eight stages: hysteria, spinal irritation, crisis epileptic, cataleptic crisis, crisis epilepsy, idiocy, insanity and death ... "
AJ Block, in "Sexual Perversion in the Female," published in the New Orleans Medical Surgery Journal in 1894-1895, reported a therapeutic success of a student aged 14 who suffered from "nervousness" and "whiteness" through the "liberation of the clitoris from its adhesions and am-monendola about the dangers of masturbation.
not forget that even Sigmund Freud was the elimination of clitoral sexuality is a prerequisite for the development of a mature femininity.
Although the last documented case dates back to 1927 is no information about the successful implementation of clitoridectomy in mental hospitals until 1935. This is interesting because in Islamic countries today, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, this practice is absolutely unknown. Female circumcision is, in fact, linked to earlier tribal cultures of Africa and the Islamization of the Arab countries. It has been preserved thanks to the ability of Islam to acculturate to tribal cultures. For this reason, in 1926 there were incidents of rebellion by women in the Horn of Africa against the Christian missionaries who wanted to eradicate this practice. It should be noted that female circumcision is shared by Muslim women, Christian and animist, especially in the Horn of Africa and Central Africa. All the campaigns to eradicate this practice are doomed to failure, if not start from the fact that it is an ancestral culture, ancient, before the conquest of Africa by Islam. For example, in Australia, that is the antithesis of the Arabian Peninsula or the Horn of Africa, there is a general phenomenon that there was no contamination of any Muslim. In fact, in practiced the introcisione aboriginal tribes, a practice of infibulation and excision even more devastating. "
The question is as old in Italy. In the Criminal Code [...]
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