Do they discuss Female Genital Mutilation also which goes along with all this "prettying up"????
Oh - I see these woman have long since past that "right of femalehood" - they are much older.
Since you bring it up: FGM is parcitce in this countury now too. I know some east African muslims who send their little girls back to get it done cheaply and with no one asking those "hard questions"
Read and weep:
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/fgc.htm