"Without the animal that dwells within us, we are castrated angels" - Herman Hesse Some studies state that much of the current unwanted and anti-social sexual behaviors are directly linked to sexual repression. Sexual repression contributes to the emergence of neuroses, including especially obsessive neurosis, hysteria, sexual impotence, frigidity and other psychic disorders.

Women always suffer more from the consequences of sexual repression due to social or religious stigmas. Ablation of the clitoris officially called female genital mutilation by the World Health Organization is the partial or total removal of tissue from the female genital organs, particularly the clitoris (clitoridectomy), with the aim of eliminating sexual pleasure in women.