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| archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|In Burkina Faso, we did not have proper clinics for these procedures. We didn’t have doctors in white jackets and gloves. '''We didn’t even have anesthesia to numb the pain'''.}}{{Quote|<nowiki>Breakout Session 3: Female Genital Mutilation - The Facts (2017) - youtu.be/nuaZ_QIx-3U?t=31m44s</nowiki> | | archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|In Burkina Faso, we did not have proper clinics for these procedures. We didn’t have doctors in white jackets and gloves. '''We didn’t even have anesthesia to numb the pain'''.}}{{Quote|<nowiki>Breakout Session 3: Female Genital Mutilation - The Facts (2017) - youtu.be/nuaZ_QIx-3U?t=31m44s</nowiki> | ||
|Remember, '''there were no anesthetics''' because for we you have to walk the walk, you have to dance the dance. It's what makes you a woman. When you feel that pain it shows you that pain is all you know as a woman.}}Ordeal, pain and fear are used rites of passage to xxxxx . It appears that FGM makes use this aspect of rites of passage, | |Remember, '''there were no anesthetics''' because for we you have to walk the walk, you have to dance the dance. It's what makes you a woman. When you feel that pain it shows you that pain is all you know as a woman.}} | ||
=== Why is anaesthetic not used? === | |||
Keep costs down | |||
technical rather than medical nature of FGM | |||
unavailability of anaesthetics | |||
illegality in many countries makes use of anaesthetics difficult | |||
tradition - cutters prefer not to, parents expect daughters to undergo what they did | |||
trauma part of the functionality of FGM | |||
Ordeal, pain and fear are used rites of passage to xxxxx . It appears that FGM makes use this aspect of rites of passage, | |||