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Cameroon girls battle 'breast ironing'
A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing". This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear. I think this is barbaric and cruel to those young virgins. What's your take on this hot issue? Read more here.
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A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing". This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear. I think this is barbaric and cruel to those young virgins. What's your take on this hot issue? Read more here. |
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Why do they want to make the breasts disappear. I'm asking cos i didnt open the link.
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06-23-2006, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Field Marshal
A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing". This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear. I think this is barbaric and cruel to those young virgins. What's your take on this hot issue? Read more here. |
Some people also do it to their children in Gambia. 
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06-23-2006, 09:51 AM
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Why do they want to make the breasts disappear. I'm asking cos i didnt open the link.
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Inorder to prevent early Kpanshing and attracting men at an early age. They want their daughters to concentrate on their studies.
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Why do they want to make the breasts disappear. I'm asking cos i didnt open the link.
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So that boys and older males wouldn't chase them....thereby enabling them complete their education. I say those reasons are ridiculous and flimsy at best!
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06-23-2006, 09:56 AM
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First we heard about female circumcision and now this. Africa and our beliefs as usual. We are our own worst enemies with this kind of stuff.
Nonsense, gobbledygook, and rubbish !!!
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06-23-2006, 10:02 AM
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FM! to us they may be ridiculous, but to those who live that life daily, it may sound reasonable to them!!!
i'm not supporting what is being done here, just trying to find some reason in my head for why a mother would advocate such for her child!!!
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So that boys and older males wouldn't chase them....thereby preventing them from completing their education. I say those reasons are ridiculous and flimsy at best!
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i tell u oh.well my mum never did dat 2 me.i was so lucky.and for dat,i love mama more.see eh,small Cameroonian gurl no dey.sugar daddy want any young gurl wif pointed oranges.na wa o
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It's just like in some public schools in Nigeria where they don't allow young girls to grow their hair, but breast ironing is just extreme! Wonder why these people never think of long-term consequences of such decision??
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06-23-2006, 10:03 AM
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J, if you dont mind me asking, are you from Cameroon?
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Originally Posted by Jinui
i tell u oh.well my mum never did dat 2 me.i was so lucky.and for dat,i love mama more.see eh,small Cameroonian gurl no dey.sugar daddy want any young gurl wif pointed oranges.na wa o
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Originally Posted by samira
First we heard about female circumcision and now this. Africa and our beliefs as usual. We are our own worst enemies with this kind of stuff.
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Maybe they should introduce something for the men.
In my country, the fullah tribe circumcised their children when they're about 12 to 13 years old.
I can imagine Paj undergoing such a process.
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Originally Posted by Jinui
i tell u oh.well my mum never did dat 2 me.i was so lucky.and for dat,i love mama more.see eh,small Cameroonian gurl no dey.sugar daddy want any young gurl wif pointed oranges.na wa o
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the sad thing Jinui is that some people believe in such acts...that is what is so frighten to me.
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06-23-2006, 10:09 AM
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Typical, rather than attack the problem at its roots, we further attack the victims hoping that this will solve the problem.
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