africans

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ubangi lip plates
the ubangi tribe were well known for inserting disks in their lower lip to progressively stretch them to outrageous proportions.
the women of the ubangi river tribe who, from childhood, have had their lips drawn over ten-inch wooden platters to protect them from other tribes’ wanton advances.
the protruding mouth
these plates are implanted into their mouths to
prevent others from trying to force oral rape
how sad that africans would have to go this far
to ward off oral rapist

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the women of the ubangi tribe in zaire, africa,
stretch their necks considerably with rings as a sign of beauty, each year adding one more ring

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*there are women from burma with their necks stretched
over four feet by huge rings
*and men with the skin of alligators