# Perfect breasts have no wrinkles...and just a touch of starch.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509 "2006-07-07T15:37:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/1 "2006-07-07T15:37:04Z")
I’ll never bitch about [circumcision](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/07/cameroon.breastironing.reut/index.html) again.
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/2 "2006-07-07T15:39:48Z")
So how many times have you been circumcised?
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/3 "2006-07-07T15:41:44Z")
As horrifying as that sounds, it ain’t got nothing on the common middle-eastern practise of female circumcision.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/4 "2006-07-07T15:42:55Z")
Sorry. I shouldn’t have said “common” – it was _once_ common but shifting social sands in that region are trying to stamp out this barbaric practice.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/5 "2006-07-07T15:46:23Z")
Ignorant, digusting, horrible people.
I nearly threw up just reading that crap. Why is this in MPSIMS? This is neither Mundane nor Pointless. I guess Pitting it is silly, though.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/6 "2006-07-07T16:24:00Z")
> [@Mindfield](#):
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> As horrifying as that sounds, it ain’t got nothing on the common middle-eastern practise of female circumcision.
I thought it was done in parts of Africa as well?
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/7 "2006-07-07T16:34:09Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> I thought it was done in parts of Africa as well?
That’s possible. I became aware of it through reports of this vulgar practice from the middle-east, so it stuck with me.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/8 "2006-07-07T16:54:52Z")
> [@Mindfield](#):
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> That’s possible. I became aware of it through reports of this vulgar practice from the middle-east, so it stuck with me.
Depending how you define Middle East, it’s only really common in one country - Egypt. Also occurs in parts of Yemen probably as a result of influence from across the Red Sea ( it is overwhelmingly common in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia as well ). Severe FGM is ovewhelmingly an African issue and is unknown in most of the ME/NA ( except perhaps in emigra communities ). This chart is pretty handy:
[http://www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/9305.htm](http://www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/9305.htm)
- Tamerlane
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/9 "2006-07-07T17:13:15Z")
This started the press rounds about a week ago,and I waited to see how long it took to show her. They do a lot worse in ignorant social groups of lowbrows.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/10 "2006-07-07T17:27:48Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Depending how you define Middle East, it’s only really common in one country - Egypt. Also occurs in parts of Yemen probably as a result of influence from across the Red Sea ( it is overwhelmingly common in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia as well ). Severe FGM is ovewhelmingly an African issue and is unknown in most of the ME/NA ( except perhaps in emigra communities ). This chart is pretty handy:
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> [http://www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/9305.htm](http://www.state.gov/g/wi/rls/rep/9305.htm)
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> - Tamerlane
Lordy. That’s depressing – and it seems as though while pretty much all of those countries are trying to do something about it, they seem to be meeting with rather long-term resistance – or their efforts aren’t very effective, based on some of the statistics shown there.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/11 "2006-07-07T17:30:30Z")
I read an article the other day (can’t find the link again) about a girl who bled to death while performing FGM on herself. Seems her parents wouldn’t do it, and she got tired of the other girls making fun of her, so she tried to do it herself.
::shudder::
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/12 "2006-07-07T17:51:07Z")
There aren’t enough swear words invented in all the languages in the world to express my reaction to this shit.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/13 "2006-07-07T17:55:56Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Seems her parents wouldn’t do it, and she got tired of the other girls making fun of her, so she tried to do it herself.
…how would they know? Daily genital inspections?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/14 "2006-07-07T18:49:54Z")
> [@iampunha](#):
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> …how would they know? Daily genital inspections?
I dunno, and I don’t really want to know.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/15 "2006-07-07T20:30:43Z")
Fair 'nuff. Seems a bit off, in retrospect, to mock a situation like that one.
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### Author:  [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/16 "2006-07-07T21:00:23Z")
How ironic. They abuse their daughters in a desperate attempt to keep them from being abused.
Sick.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/17 "2006-07-07T21:02:05Z")
I’m going to have nightmares tonight about my mother ironing me. What makes this worse is that if you’ve ever watched _Misery_–my mom looks _exactly_ like Kathy Bates. :eek:
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/18 "2006-07-07T21:09:06Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Severe FGM is ovewhelmingly an African issue and is unknown in most of the ME/NA ( except perhaps in emigra communities ).
Very true - and it also sometimes gets erroneously described as directly linked to Islamist beliefs, when it’s actually also common in some Christian communities.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/19 "2006-07-07T21:13:53Z")
My favorite thing about it is: they know men will sexually abuse the girls, so they mutilate the girls rather than address the men who abuse the girls. Wonder who’s in charge?
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-breasts-have-no-wrinkles-and-just-a-touch-of-starch/363509/20 "2006-07-07T21:15:23Z")
[hijack]
I had a schoolmate once that had an iron-shaped burn scar on the right side of his face, complete with little holes that weren’t burned. Apparently his older sister didn’t know it was on.
It was probably more painful than it looked, which was very.
[/hijack]
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