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		r14c on July 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Born into slavery, he rose to the top of France's ... even the amount of tattoos depends on culture and region. lots of cultures around the world practice some form of tattooing. even the BMI thing varies somewhat because different BMIs are healthy for different ethnic groups.

Modified3019 on July 12, 2024 [–]

This is a tangent to the mention of cultural BMI, but I recently came across these:

Ritual fattening of Massa men

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fatt...

Leblouh, the force feeding of girls to fatten them.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in...

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