It reminds me of the line in a song off Frank Zappa's old "Freak Out" album from '66 or '67, "What is the ugliest part of your body?" Then the refrain goes."I think it's your mind."

So apparently the men from that culture either have a healthy mistrust of women or of themselves. The idea that in some cultures women's genitals are mutilated in infancy to assure that theywill never have sexual pleasure physically doesn't sound very empowering to me.