Activists Protest “Breast Ironing” Mutilation

Bliss · Feb 23, 2013

Have never heard of this.

Ok, so we have covering them completely up, clitoral hacksawing and now this? Good God! :smt009

Practice Performed On Young Girls To Flatten Out Their Chests

By Nia Hamm | February 20, 2013

...Dr. Flavien Ndonko of GTZ, in research he shared with theGrio, listed among breast ironing’s many dangerous consequences: high fever, breast cancer, severe chest pain, infection as a result of scarification, cysts, breast deformities and complete disappearance of the breasts.

“Saying that breasts are destroyed is an understatement,” Dr. Ndonko said in previously published reports. “Adolescents are traumatized, mutilated. This is a serious damage not only on their physical integrity, but also on their psychological well-being.”
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...For Leina what is most troubling about breast ironing is the resulting the emotional scars.

“Your mom is doing that to you. What is the message she’s passing to you as a little girl?” Leina said. “That you’re having breasts: It’s wrong, it’s shameful. You don’t like your body.”

As the practice is taboo, victims often suffer in silence. But thanks to Leina and other activists fighting to end it, more victims and even perpetrators have been speaking out against it.

“I think it’s the culture,” Agwetang said. “They don’t want to talk about certain things. But now that we are going out… they open up and they tell you their experiences. And even some parents, they tell you what they did to their children and they really regret it.”
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For the full story....

http://thegrio.com/2013/02/20/an-ac...ice-of-girls-in-cameroon/2/#s:gender-danger-5

Sin Mari · Feb 23, 2013

Probably would help if we knew what the hell it was. I found this in a related article.

The procedure [breast ironing] — which involves the flattening of a young girl’s growing breasts with hot stones, coconut shells and other objects — is considered a way to curb the country’s staggering number of teenage pregnancies, particularly high in rural areas, as well as limit the risk of sexual assault.

- Full Article Here
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Horrifying, but I can see where the women are coming from. It's fear based. Fear for the safety of the young girls. Unfortunately what they're doing doesn't stop the sexual assaults or underage sex.

wtarshi · Feb 24, 2013

My lord, what is wrong with people and when will we allow females to develop naturally without deforming their bodies and minds?

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