One woman told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she only realised breast ironing was not normal when she discovered her body looked different to her classmates during a PE class at her UK school, which led her to become distressed.
一名女子告诉节目组，直到她在英国学校上体育课、发现自己的身材和同学们不一样时，她才意识到烫乳是不正常的。 这让她十分沮丧。
Her sister had breast ironed her from age eight, but her teachers failed to notice when she became withdrawn and stopped wanting to take part in PE lessons.
她姐姐从她8岁起就开始给她烫乳。但她的老师也没有注意到，这个女孩变得孤僻起来，也不再想上体育课了。
▲Breast ironing awareness 'needed in school' (via BBC)
(图via Daily Express)
这还不是最痛苦的。
等好不容易挨过了敏感纤细的青春期、到了结婚生子的时候，这些被烫过乳房的女孩们开始尝到了另一种折磨：
Like many young girls, Simone was also made to wear an extremely tight strap around her chest to suppress them even more - which caused her difficulty breathing.
和很多年幼的女孩一样，西蒙被迫穿着特别紧身的裹胸， 从而让胸部变得更平——可这种裹胸会让人难以呼吸。
A few years later, when she had a baby to the man she was forced to marry, the long-term damage became apparent.
几年后，西蒙被迫嫁给了一个男人，还生了个孩子。这时，烫乳的长期危害就开始明显了起来。
"When it comes to breast feeding, it's so strenuous, like there's a knot inside," she explained. "It seemed like maybe some of the nerves were destroyed."
“喂奶时特别费力，就像是乳房打了结似的。” 她说。“感觉像是一些神经已经被毁掉了。”
▲Breast ironing awareness 'needed in school' (via BBC)
▲烫乳用的石头(图via Joe Penney/Reuters)
烫乳，是一种针对女性的“割礼” 。而“割礼”陋习还有很多种其他的表现形式，每一种都愚昧而残忍。
很难想象，在现代社会——甚至是身为西方发达国家的英国——也存在如此落后怪诞的陋习，残害着一个又一个年幼的女孩，将她们如花的生命一点点摧毁。
据悉，英国一些公益组织已在呼吁学校和社会对“烫乳”进行干预。
希望更多的人能知道：用烫平乳房甚至割掉一部分性器官的方法来防止女孩被“骚扰”，是多么荒谬而愚蠢的逻辑。
希望这些对于女童的折磨与残害，能够在这个地球上消失。
