It’s a simple question, but one that has troubled many, and one whose solutions have had mixed results. However, the fine people in the villages of Cameroon have a solution! You simply deform your child sexually so that no man will want her! It’s a brilliant plan, and all it takes is some rocks, some fire, and your baby’s breasts.

I had never heard of this practice, but I saw a post on Pharyngula today entitled What fresh torment can we perpetrate on young girls? and it included an incredible and awful video about the practice. All I can say is that there seems to be no amount of torment we will spare our children if the mood takes us.

It’s funny, because I hear all the time about kids who say their parents are abusive to them because they give them spankings or force them to do chores when they don’t want to. There are so many more horrible things that could happen to them. Kind of makes a spanking and getting sent to your room to clean it seem minor in contrast.

Jim