Circumcision of an Arab girl - graphic
Spacy Bickerson
My name is Fatima. My mother took me to an Arab doctor when I was 10
years old. She told me it was for a medical examination. When we got to
his office the doctor took us into an examination room. The doctor gave my
mother some forms to fill out and a release form for her to sign. The
doctor told me to remove my clothes and put on a gown.
The doctor left at that point and I removed all my cloths and put on a
gown. My mom had completed filling out the forms by the time the doctor had
came back into the room. The doctor told me to lie down on the examination
table and put my feet up in the stirrups.
My mom then told me she would put a belt around my waist to prevent me
from falling off the table. It was a very wide belt and she put it on very
tight. The doctor was busy tying my feet onto the stirrups.
The doctor then moved over a big cart of equipment and placed it by my
feet. Then he then removed my gown. Have you ever had a period the doctor
asks? I told him no. When did your breasts begin to grow asks the doctor?
My breast buds had just started to swell this year I told him.
He then proceeded to move the stirrups very wide and he got between my
legs. The doctor started to examine my labia minor and major. He felt all
over them and pulled very hard. It was forbidden by our culture to have a
man touch us down there until we are marred. The doctor measured my lips
and wrote it down on my chart. Next he looked at my clitoris. It was
mostly covered by its hood. The doctor said it was about ½ inch long and
3/8 inch around.
The doctor then examined my hymen. My mother was watching very close. I
could not be married if my hymen was broken. The doctor said I had a very
small hymen that covered about 10 % of my vaginal opening. Her hymen will
not break the first time she has sex and it will not bleed said the doctor.
The doctor then talked to my mom about what she had requested. This is
when I learned that I was going to have me circumcised. The doctor told
her, he would repair my hymen. Trim and suture my labia minor together. He
asks her if she wanted me to have my clitoris removed or cover it up until I
got married. My mom told him it had to be completely removed.
I was very worried all of this sounded like it was going to hurt. Why
did I have to have it done when American girls did not have it done I ask my
mom. She told me it was how it was done in our culture. The doctor picked
up a scalpel and told me to remain still. He then cut a layer of skin off
the inside of my vagina and sutured it on to my old hymen. This hurt
terribly I was crying and screaming. My mother put a piece of wood in
between my teeth so I would not hurt my self. Each sutures really hurt. I
ask them to make the pain go away and my mom told me it was customary this
way.
The doctor then showed my mom the new hymen; he said it was 4 times as
thick as most and it would bleed very nicely when I had sex the first time.
The new hymen covered 95% of the opening and would allow the menstrual blood
to flow out. I ask if it would hurt and the doctor told me it would hurt a
lot the first time I had sex.
He then picked up the scalpel and started to cut around clitoris. I
started screaming it hurt so much. The doctor then picked up a long tube
with a hose on it. He put the tube over my clitoris and turned on the
vacuum pump. Normally I just use 5 inches of vacuum on a clit to maker it
bigger. But this time I need to pull on it very hard so he turned it up all
the way. I passed out from the pain. I woke up when he started pulling
very hard on my clit and cut around it very deep. When he said he was down
to the root he picked up a flat bladed knife and cut it off very deep. I
passed out again. The doctor turned off the vacuum pump and showed my
clitoris to my mom, it was two inches long. She was very happy. My mom put
some water on my face and I woke up. Where my clit use to be it hurt
terrible and it was bleeding a lot. The doctor told my mom he had to kill
the nerves.
The doctor brought over a new machine with a long tool attached to it. He
said for it to work it had to be grounded. He pulled a wire off the machine
and hooked its clamp to my nipple. Then he turned on the machine. On the
long end of the tool was a round probe that I could tell had heated until it
was red hot. The doctor then pushed the probe into where my clit use to be.
I could here the burning flesh. I screamed it hurt so badly. I thought it
was over then the doctor turned on the voltage. It was like putting my
finger in a light socket. All the current flowed threw the probe into where
my clit use to be and out my nipple. I could see sparks on my nipple. The
doctor removed the tool after 30 seconds. I was going into convolutions at
that point. I wish I could pass out again. My nipple had swelled 4 times
larger that the other one and the clap on my nipple really hurt. The doctor
removed the clap from my nipple. That's when my nipple really hurt, all the
blood was flowing back into it again.
The doctor picked up a tool that had a flat piece of metal on the end of
the handle. The flat part of the tool was very rough and sharp almost like
a rasp. I have to scrape your labia's so they will adhere to each other
said the doctor. He then grabbed my pussy lips one at a time and ran the
tool over them. I was again screaming bloody murder it hurt so bad I almost
passed out. After he ran the tool over my pussy lips they where bleeding
very badly. The doctor then sutured my labia minor together. I have left a
place for you to urinate and your menstrual flow to pass through said the
doctor.
The doctor asks my mother to inspect me. She said my circumcision was
done very well. I should consider my self lucky, most girls have it done in
the bush and a lot of the girls die from infection.
He told my mother that I should stay in bed for a week, no physical work
for a month. The doctor then told me to come back in 2 days for a check up
and do not wash the area or take a bath for a week.
That night my pussy hurt terribly, I had a hard time sleeping. When I
went to the bathroom it burned very bad. By the second day most of the pain
had gone away.
My mom took me back to the doctor for him to check me. He had me get
back up on the examination table. The doctor started to pull on my pussy
lips and see if he could get a finger behind them. This hurt a lot they
where sewn very tight. He said they would heal very nicely and in two weeks
he would take out the stitches. Then he got his little finger in behind my
pussy lips and touched my hymen. You now have a very hard hymen. Do not
touch it said the doctor or I will have to repair it again and it will hurt
more the next time.
