“The longing to serve, to submit, to abandon oneself sexually, emotionally, and physically makes one a slave either to a man, a woman or to God. Submission to that passion is divine degradation.”
– Dorothy C. Hayden

Speaking in that history repeats itself mode

You are the reason I broke up with my old boyfriend

and the reason I will break up with my next boyfriend

thought you should know

I heard you got an ass tattoo…

as if there was any other kind for you

If I had known I would only get one shot I would have left MORE MARKS

(Dear Lost Love)

Boobs-America Pre 1945

A ‘boob” is a stupid person, a boor, a Philistine, a dullard..a dolt. The word became popular in America around 1900, is a shortened version of the british slang “booby” meaning a stupid mistake or “a blunder”. Two or more mistakes were “boobies” or “boo-boos” the expression for a child’s minor injury, a “boo-boo” How then did “boob” and boobies come to mean the slang for female breasts? Is it that men make utter fools , or boobs , of themselves in the prsence of large breasts, stammering at the sight of them? Are such men “booby trapped”? Or do they take the “booby” prize in front of a buxom woman? After all we say that television is the “boob tube” implying it conveys nonsense that makes fools or boobs of us all. Others maintain that ‘boob” as slang for “breasts” originated from bubbies, the Elizabethan word for that part of the female anatomy. This theory holds that “bubbies” in time became “boobies”

For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release the pressure.
       But it was more than that. I was now different. I felt different. I’d discovered a way to control my feelings. Just because self-mutilation wasn’t deemed an acceptable coping mechanism didn’t mean I was going to stop doing it. –Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival

Breaker Boys 1910

What Charles Dickens did with words for the underage toilers of London, Lewis Hine did with photographs for the youthful laborers in the United States. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee was already campaigning to put the nation’s two million young workers back in school when the group hired Hine. The Wisconsin native traveled to half the states, capturing images of children working in mines, mills and on the streets. Here he has photographed “breaker boys,” whose job was to separate coal from slate, in South Pittston, Pa. Once again, pictures swayed the public in a way cold statistics had not, and the country enacted laws banning child labor.