Was Genital Mutilation Addressed?

Unfortunately,
men and women are the same species, but ultimately, somehow, they are quite different; even subspecies are more similar.

I think that if and when men became more powerful in these societies (and don't forget, a lot of older women perform the task,) they were intent on making sure their offspring was indisputably theirs. Ego, power, property rights, who knows.
I'm sure emotion played into it. Ironically, probably the reverse of the 'rich' man/woman who wants to be loved for themselves.

But obviously, this was not the way to do things and a beyond horrendous method of ensuring fidelity. I'd bet some women in those cultures set about infidelity, if they were prepared to be turned out in the street or die horribly, for the very reason they were mutilated. To defiantly have a choice, even if it brought them no pleasure.

Some cultures prefer the woman dry (sorry) more friction that way for the man.

I don't know what to say about all this. I was not there at the beginning. Perhaps this their again, awful, solution to unwed or out of wedlock relations that would result in extra babies in arid, awful times.

But women don't always take lovers for the act of love. Men don't understand that. Until they learn, there is that saying, "when the wife sins, the husband is never innocent."

Hmmmm....