I don't think it would automatically end if it was worse.
Look at FGM in Africa (the severe forms like infibulation). Did those societies figure out by themselves, wait, it kills many girls right away, others suffer for their whole lives, or die when giving birth (along with the baby) – maybe, just maybe this is not good for our community and we should stop it? (Even if men were dead set on restraining women's sexuality, they would have to realize that it doesn't help to lose so many people, and selectively from the one sex that is the limiting factor for reproduction.)
No, people from societies who don't practice FGM had and still have to go in and tell and show them that FGM is bad and not normal and most importantly: that nothing terrible happens if you don't do it.
Or look at male circumcision where it's done under unprofessional and unhygienic circumstances and kills many boys each year. South African officials fight an uphill battle against the dangerous, illegal circumcision schools – young men are still running there, even with the prospect of dying or having all of their genitals amputated.
If a practice is ingrained in a culture and people firmly believe that you just have to do it (for whatever reason), it doesn't matter how high a price they pay. They will possibly cling to it even tighter if the price is high, because stopping it would mean that it was never necessary in the first place – and thus all the suffering and death was for nothing all the time.
They do it because they firmly believe they must. And they firmly believe they must do it because they do it.
Of course, there are always intelligent and brave individuals who wake up to reality, but I'm talking about the societies as a whole.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the respective society's level of education and industrialisation, either. The reasons and arguments are simply adjusted to the progressing development.
Stardust
Look at FGM in Africa (the severe forms like infibulation). Did those societies figure out by themselves, wait, it kills many girls right away, others suffer for their whole lives, or die when giving birth (along with the baby) – maybe, just maybe this is not good for our community and we should stop it? (Even if men were dead set on restraining women's sexuality, they would have to realize that it doesn't help to lose so many people, and selectively from the one sex that is the limiting factor for reproduction.)
No, people from societies who don't practice FGM had and still have to go in and tell and show them that FGM is bad and not normal and most importantly: that nothing terrible happens if you don't do it.
Or look at male circumcision where it's done under unprofessional and unhygienic circumstances and kills many boys each year. South African officials fight an uphill battle against the dangerous, illegal circumcision schools – young men are still running there, even with the prospect of dying or having all of their genitals amputated.
If a practice is ingrained in a culture and people firmly believe that you just have to do it (for whatever reason), it doesn't matter how high a price they pay. They will possibly cling to it even tighter if the price is high, because stopping it would mean that it was never necessary in the first place – and thus all the suffering and death was for nothing all the time.
They do it because they firmly believe they must. And they firmly believe they must do it because they do it.
Of course, there are always intelligent and brave individuals who wake up to reality, but I'm talking about the societies as a whole.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the respective society's level of education and industrialisation, either. The reasons and arguments are simply adjusted to the progressing development.
Stardust
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