How about breast ironing? When I first read about it, I wondered how it would even do anything — but then you discover that they heat stones until they're hot enough to cause pain, and press these instruments of torture to their chest daily for months. And who carries out this sadistic abuse? Their loving mothers. To make them unattractive to men, who might otherwise get them pregnant.
Don't watch the video if the sight of scarred breasts bother you.
One in four girls in Cameroon are having this done. It seems to me that sex education and prophylactics would be the less destructive way to prevent pregnancies, and probably more effective, but…did you know that approximately 25% of the population of Cameroon are Catholic?
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