A tall order
It's painful and slow, but can make you five inches taller. Jonathan Watts
on the surgical trend sweeping China - leg-lengthening
Monday December 15, 2003
The Guardian
Kong Jing-wen has paid £5,700 to have both of her legs broken and
stretched on a rack. The pretty college graduate
I knew a woman who had a similar operation on one leg, to equalize the
length with the other one. As soon as she recovered from her operation,
she left her husband.
On a more serious note, people like Daniel Hammermesch, for example in
Biddle, Jeff E. and Daniel S. Hamermesh. 1998. Beauty,
What a story...
It hurts, but it will be worth it to be
taller. I'll have more opportunities in life and a better chance of
finding a good job and husband.
It isn't even true, in my experience.
J.
From foot-binding to leg-lengthening. Progress of a sort, I suppose
Gil
A tall order
It's painful and slow, but can make you five inches taller. Jonathan Watts
on the surgical trend sweeping China - leg-lengthening
Monday December 15, 2003
The Guardian
Kong Jing-wen has paid £5,700 to have
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
