Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.
