this kind of thing goes WAY further back - the Chinese used to bind the feet of girls, breaking their bones and then binding them tight, doing this over and over again as the girls became women, until their feet eventually ended up about 6 inches long. they couldn't even walk - and that was the point, it was a male effort at dominating them by taking away their ability to move around - this went on for generations, and it was only stopped less than 100 years ago! it kind of bothers me when articles like this say, "this isn't new" only to look back to the past 5 or 10 years -- go back decades or hundreds of years and you will find even more physical abuse. this is NOT new - modern society will not find much that hasn't been attempted in the past, only our surgical techniques and our technology has changed. people were getting nose jobs before plastic surgery was even an actual medical practice.
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