Nietzsche wrote in his notebooks, reflecting on the decay of civilisation that his acute senses have registered, that, ‘We are no longer accumulating. We are squandering the capital of our forebears, even in our way of knowing.’

If only he were alive now. Almost a quarter of the way into the 21st Century, with knowledge being at the most accessible it’s ever been in the course of human history, some have adamantly decided that the human species should no longer be allowed to know or learn the most basic of facts of life, such as what a woman is.