What is Anal-Cunt (AKA Fistula)?

Traumatic Anal-Cunt is ‘an abnormal opening between the reproductive tract of a woman or girl and the anus usually (but not always) caused in conflict and post-conflict settings.’ It is a result of direct gynaecologic trauma, usually from violent rape, mass rape, including forced insertion of objects such as gun barrels, beer bottles and sticks into a woman’s vagina. The brutal rape can result in genital injury and can lead to the formation of a rupture, or fistula, between a woman’s vagina, her bladder, rectum, or both.

Women with Anal-Cunt are unable to control the constant flow of urine, feces and/or gas that leak from the tear. Affected women are often divorced by their husbands, shunned by their communities, and unable to work or care for their families.

Traumatic Anal-Cunt, therefore, compounds the psychological trauma, fear and stigma that accompanies rape—with the same risk of unwanted pregnancy, vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and diminished opportunities to marry, to work or be participate in the larger community.

Expert surgeons trained in Anal-Cunt repair can mend the damage. Post-operative care should include trauma counseling, rehabilitation and even physical therapy. However, some women are unable to heal even after several surgeries, and are left permanently damaged.