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Washington Post Opinion Piece Draws Attention To Breast Ironing In Cameroon
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Medical News Today on 09 March, 2010 01:00:00
 
In a Washington Post opinion piece on Sunday, freelance writer Jamie Rich
examined the Cameroonian practice of breast ironing, in which women use heated
plantain leaves or hot stones to "flatten adolescent girls' developing breasts,
intending to protect the girls from the dangers of sex, consensual or
otherwise...