As time went by, however, our male ancestors stopped getting worked up over swollen female genitals because there weren't any.

These people are said to have lost the "keys of hell," but to retain the "key of the abyss" ( female genitals).

The World Health Organization (WHO) says FGM includes any procedure that intentionally alters or causes injury to the female genitals for non-medical reasons.

Advertising by private clinics too is blamed for conveying a "distorted" image of what female genitals look like and playing down the risks of surgery.

Is the clitoris not the "small, sensitive, erectile part of the female genitals at the anterior end of the vulva", as Oxford Dictionaries defines it?