When I was but a child, I remember being horrified at some pictures I saw of Africans with what seemed to me to be saucers in their earlobes and similar face furniture. The habit of the Karen tribes in Thailand of stretching necks be adding more and more rings horrifies me as well. The Chinese practice of not allowing girl babies' feet to grow horrifies me. This idea is, to me, just another rather revolting body mutilation. I know not everyone will agree with that but that's how I feel about it. I never dared express this as a child because even though political correctness hadn't been invented then, I sensed it already. I knew I was supposed to 'respect' these other cultural traditions. Well, I didn't, and I still don't. So I don't think charities should encourage them. If that's my guts thinking rather than my head, so be it, but I don't think it is, I think it's my sense of beauty and elegance that is making me just think yuck!