6.27.2006
NO BREASTS FOR THE WICKED
While the headline “Cameroon girls battle breast ironing” sounds like it came out ot The Onion, unfortunately the practice of “breast ironing” is all too real. The BBC reports that a nationwide campaign is underway in Cameroon in order to try to stop the practice, during which young women have their breasts pounded with hot objects in order to make them stop growing. According to this story, 26 percent of young girls in Cameroon are subject to the “treatment” when they begin puberty. The belief is that pounding down their daughter’s breasts will protect them from the sexual advances of Cameroonian men who believe that woman are ready for sex as soon as their breasts begin to grow. Despite the current educational campaign which is trying to warn mothers about the health risks the practice, most women are eager to continue the tradition. “Breast ironing is not a new thing” explained one woman. “I am happy I protected my daughter. I could not stand the thought of boys spoiling her with sex before she completed school.”
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Africa has one of the hightest child sexual exploitation rates in the world so it goes to show how desperate these mothers have become in protecting their children from being raped. It’s sick of course what they do, but they do it because they are desperate...remember that in Africa, especially the southern parts, that some of the men are taught about all these vile rituals and sick superstitions where they are told that having sex with babies or virgin children that the act will cure or prevent them from having aids. It’s horrible! There has been incidents where groups of men rape tiny babies as young as 9 months! Literally doing this in front of the mothers! Thats how scared these mothers are that they would be doing such horrible things to their daughters to keep the men away at any cost....its horrible. Not only do the children have to worry about starving to death or getting aids, but they have to worry about being sexually abused or worry about being taken by evil regimes where the people then make them sex slaves or force them into armies which fight amongst each other and are then used for and by warlords. It’s not a good environment for anyone….let alone the little children. You can tell alot about a nation on how they treat their women and children. In Africa it’s pure savagery!
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