{"id":1074,"date":"2016-02-18T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:04:01","slug":"i-thought-this-is-how-a-virgin-is-meant-to-look-female-genital-mutilation-victim-whose-vagina-was-stitched-up-and-the-blade-woman-who-cuts-30-girls-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/i-thought-this-is-how-a-virgin-is-meant-to-look-female-genital-mutilation-victim-whose-vagina-was-stitched-up-and-the-blade-woman-who-cuts-30-girls-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I thought this is how a virgin is meant to look&#8217;: Female genital mutilation victim whose vagina was stitched up &#8211; and the &#8216;blade woman&#8217; who cuts 30 girls a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mariam\u00a0Doumbia didn&#8217;t realise there was anything wrong until she was 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She just thought it was how unmarried girls who had never had sex &#8216;looked&#8217;. Then she saw a picture of a woman who had been circumcised &#8211; her clitoris cut out, her labia cut off and her vagina sewn up &#8211; and knew, in that moment, she had been mutilated.\u00a0&#8216;Up until that point, I thought I was normal,&#8217; the 23-year-old said. &#8216;I thought it was how virgins looked.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen144\">In another part of Mali, a woman sits grabs her granddaughter to better explain her point, taking a fold in the young girl&#8217;s underwear between two fingers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I spread their legs and hold the clitoris between my two fingers and cut the tip of it, and it&#8217;s all over in a jiffy,&#8217; she says, proudly.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3449674\/I-thought-virgin-meant-look-Muslim-FGM-victim-vagina-stitched-blade-woman-cuts-30-girls-day.html#ixzz40VnVuRlh\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3449674\/I-thought-virgin-meant-look-Muslim-FGM-victim-vagina-stitched-blade-woman-cuts-30-girls-day.html#ixzz40VnVuRlh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariam\u00a0Doumbia didn&#8217;t realise there was anything wrong until she was 22. She just thought it was how unmarried girls who had never had sex &#8216;looked&#8217;. Then she saw a picture of a woman who had been circumcised &#8211; her clitoris cut out, her labia cut off and her vagina sewn up &#8211; and knew, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,98,4,385],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-halo-project","tag-mali"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}