Violent revelation by Amira Pocher (27): she should have been circumcised in her childhood. This revealed the 27-year-old in a new podcast episode of "Die Pochers hier!", Which she runs with her husband, the comedian Oliver Pocher (42). Only her mother was able to prevent circumcision.
"My father or grandfather had insisted that I be circumcised, but luckily my mother was able to prevent this," said Pocher, whose mother is from Austria and her father is Egyptian. "I don't know if that's still the case today, but the fact is I should have been circumcised in Egypt," she recalls. "I wasn't circumcised thanks to my mother."
"It is the very last"
It is estimated worldwide that around 200 million circumcised girls and women live. According to a study funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, around 48,000 girls and women who were victims of female genital mutilation lived in Germany in 2017. Pocher describes what happens here: "In principle, it is a matter of the woman no longer feeling pleasure or having no G-spot. The outer and inner labia are cut away."
The circumcision of women is "mutilation", says the 27-year-old. "It is the very last thing, because you take a lot from the woman. She shouldn't feel like having sex or the temptation to cheat. She should only be there for the man. The man can have fun."
Hardly any contact with her father
Pocher grew up in Austria with her brother, who was two years older. When she was three years old, her father had to go back to Egypt: "When I was three and my brother five, he almost disappeared from our lives." The two had only had sporadic contact with him: "My childhood actually consisted of waiting once a year for my father to come forward," Pocher continues. There were also years of breaks in which he did not report.