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"SHOWING HOW THE FLESH AT THE 'SMALL' OF THE BACK HAS BEEN SO BRUISED THAT IT FINALLY BECOMES HARDENED OR CALLOUSED BY THE PRESSURE OF THE CORSET"

Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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body thisis the only place where thereis an external sign of theprocess of breathing. Whenyou are normal the dia-phragm moves downwardwith every breath you in-hale. The descending dia-phragm forces out the lowerpart of the abdomen. Whenthe breath is exhaled, theabdomen moves inward to its formerposition. Therefore any restriction ofthe waist-line interferes with normalbreathing. This is the explanation ofthe habit of chest breathing that we ob-serve in nearly all women who wear cor-sets. You will notice that the upper chest rises and falls with every breathinhaled and exhaled. Just think of the vital organs under-lying this important part of the body,that are squeezed out of all normal shapewhenever a corset is what is termedproperly laced. Here is where theblood is made, and to a certain extentit is here that it is purified and madeready for its course through the body. The corset, therefore, interferes withthe digestion, interferes with nearlyevery blood-making process, and last but
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SHOWING HOW THE FLESH AT THE SMALL OF THE BACK HAS BEEN SO BRUISED THAT IT FINALLY BECOMES HARDENED OR CALLOUSED BY THE PRESSURE OF THE CORSET (From Actual Photograph) not least, by any means, it presses downupon all the organs of sex. Because ofthis, thousands of women belong to thefeminine sex in name only. They arenot real women in any sense of the word.Their sex instincts have really been de-stroyed through tight-lacing. Is it any 62 PHYSICAL CULTURE wonder, then, that the so-called fash-ionable women rarely care for children ?It is only a well-sexed woman with allthe delicate instincts of womanhood thor-oughly developed who loves children.The wasp-waisted creature, who hassapped her vitality and destroyed herwomanhood through following the wick-ed custom of crushing her vital organs,has nothing in common with the real,well-developed woman. She is simplya pretense. She would have to changeher attitude; she would have to developher womanlynature, bef o re shecould belongto the fem-

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