Gil Skillman wrote:

From foot-binding to leg-lengthening. Progress of a sort, I suppose....

Not at all, I think. The article just made me muse about the medieval horrors raised up in my mind's eye by the description of this procedure ...and how these tortures are now self-imposed.

So long as we aspire to nothing more than being perfect objects, how can
there be progress?

Joanna

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