'They never used to snip clits off 300 years ago in this country'.....
'They' are still doing it in this country now - did you not watch 'Casualty' a few weeks ago?
In the middle ages, in this country, fathers and husbands had their daughters/wives welded into iron chastity belts to ensure they stayed pure while the menfolk were away sowing their wild oats. (I think this practice has died out). It has always been 'lock up your daughters', never 'castrate the rapist'. It is still the case that if a dangerous rapist/murderer is on the loose, it is WOMEN and girls who are advised to stay at home, when if all decent MEN stayed at home under curfew, the prowling, dangerous man would be easily identified.