Virey notices that the Hindoo bonze, or fakir, at times submits to infibulation at the same time that he takes his vows of eternal chastity.
To obtain the same results in a nation given to indolence and luxury, and lax in its morality, some physical restraint was required, and we therefore find the practice of infibulation coming from the warm countries to the East.
Infibulation was known, as already stated, for centuries, and in those rude times it seemed as the most natural and effective mode of accomplishing the object.
Infibulation is practiced in Northeastern Africa and by the Mohammedan Malays.
Circumcision of females is the removal of the clitoris and the labia minora; introcision is the enlargement of the vaginal orifice by tearing it downwards; infibulation is the closing of the labia just after circumcision.
This ancient custom of infibulation is occasionally seen at the present day in civilized countries, and some cases of infibulation from jealousy are on record.
Buffon and Brown mention infibulation in Abyssinia, the parts being separated by a bistoury at the time of marriage.
Occasionally infibulation has been used as a means of preventing masturbation.
Rhodius mentions the usage of infibulation in antiquity, and Fabricius d'Aquapendente remarks that infibulation was usually practiced in females for the preservation of chastity.
Infibulation of the male and female external genital organs for the prevention of sexual congress is a very ancient custom.
Infibulation by a ring in the prepuce was used to prevent premature copulation, and was in time to be removed, but in some cases its function was the preservation of perpetual chastity.
For such purposes as the foregoinginfibulation offered a more humane method than castration.
Peney speaks of infibulation for the preservation of chastity, as observed by him in the Soudan.
The practice of infibulation was very common in India, from religious motives.
Infibulation was practiced in two ways,--by a ring through the prepuce or by a bandage around it.
For this infibulation of girls, as it is a substance not subject to corruption, they use the fibres of the asbestos.
We shall hereafter speak on the infibulation of girls; on this head nothing can be supposed too fantastic or absurd, which men, borne away by passion, or immersed in superstition, have scrupled to put in practice.
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