Yes, Moymona it's the height of irony isn't it, that the majority of women have by and large, got used to submitting to these man-made restrictions and fears and women who refuse to comply, get stuck with all sorts of nasty labels. Not only that, but other women are usually the ones doing the dirty deeds of ostracism and worse.

I recall reading 'The Hidden Face of Eve' by the great Dr Nawal El Saadawi, who describes how cliterectomies were usually done by older women and her horror as a 7 year old to find that one of the women holding her down, was her own mother.