In Cameroon, some mothers "iron" their daughters' breasts to delay or prevent them from having sex. The procedure often involves grinding a very hot rock into the chest of the girl, but sometimes kerosene or hot plantain peels will do the trick. The practice, which permanently disfigures the girls, starts in adolescence because that's when girls start becoming attractive to boys.
And heaven forbid that anyone expect anything like self-restraint from the boys.
I'd never heard of the practice until I read about it in the Washington Post. But the story is all too familiar. Around the world, women girls have to pay the price for the barbarity of boys.
