UK teachers urged to talk about breast ironing

bbc

In order to protect girls from abuse, a teachers union in the UK is campaigning for pupils to be taught about the practice of ironing breasts.

The practice, sometimes used in parts of West Africa, usually involves heating a stone or spoon on a flame then pressing, massaging or flattening the breast.

It is done to young girls to delay breasts from growing.

Those who carry it out say they are trying to stop men from sexualising girls.

"Time does not erase that kind of pain," a woman who went through it as a child explained to the BBC.

Another woman told the BBC that later on in life it made breast feeding extremely painful.