UK: Calls increase to outlaw brutal ritual called "breast ironing" in Britain

[davidn3600]

There are concerns more than a thousand women have been subjected to a practice known as "breast ironing" in Britain.

The ritual, which was originally carried out in parts of Africa, involves young girls having their breasts beaten, burnt and massaged in order to stop them developing.

The aim is to make women less attractive to the opposite sex so that they focus on school work.

It is almost always carried out by a girl's mother, in the privacy of their own home.

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Breast ironing is a secretive and brutal form of mutilation.

Heated objects are used to burn children's breasts. Many then have bands tied tightly around their chests.

Experts believe the ritual can cause cysts, abscesses, even breast cancer.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/call-breast-ironing-criminal-offence-003816683.html

It's immigrants from mainly west and central Africa that are doing this in Britain. In some of these societies they come from, mothers will mutilate their daughter's breasts so that they won't be attractive to boys or men. And this is done under the idea that it protects the girls from sexual activity at a young age.

It's amazing what some in the western world are willing to tolerate in the name of multiculturalism.

[pnwmom]

1. This is terrible abuse and should be treated as such. Period. n/t

[Marrah_G]

2. OMG

That is horrible, horrible, horrible. So many things done to women so that men won't have to work so hard to control their urges.

[Scootaloo]

3. It's amazing that you think it's tolerated

[Journeyman]

4. "I think about my education sometimes. . .

I went to the University of Chicago for a while after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Another thing they taught was that nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting.

Shortly before my father died, he said to me, "You know—you never wrote a story with a villain in it."

I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut

[tkmorris]

5. There's something about that guy

I don't remember reading that quote before, but I knew without a doubt who it was when I did. There's just something about his worldview that I recognize and identify with.

We miss you Kurt.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

6. Time for some British reeducation campaign,

if this is true.