The headturners across the street pays heavily to be one. The mushrooming beauty parlours carry out several processes like waxing, threading etc on willing bodies, presumably human. But this willingness is more social than voluntary. Consider a twelve year old girl pushed to parlour for a painful procedure called waxing. Molten sugar is spread on the skin and then it is pulled suddenly causing unnecessary pain. But why? compliance...sir compliance. Compliance to the expectation that girls should learn to be beautiful, for beauty is the only insurance for attention and 'care' of menfolks.
Neelima's post on pain in parlours is important as it points to deep socialization of women, that they no more need any push from men. Their socialization prepares them so efficiently that they not only queue themselves at parlours for painful procedures but also train new ones from their species to learn to bear the pain.
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