I'm rereading this post about black mothers putting pepper in their daughters vaginas as punishment and all I can think about it that line "THEY NOT LIKE US THEY NOT LIKE US THEY NOT LIKE US" from ooga booga tunes vol 12.
something alarming to me, pardon necessary autism, is in the book aztec by gary jennings, which is historical fiction about aztecs, spaniard invasions etc, around 1400s, protags sister is caught masturbating, so the mother got chili powder and rubbed it in there. besides the book, apparently there's also been at least one name for it, Klatha douda
"Harig – Burning the intimate areas
In Algeria and other countries, families spend a lot of time analysing the behaviour of young girls. A list of names exists to classify them and find appropriate remedies.
One remedy is to put hot pepper or crushed raw chilli pepper (harissa) on the genital area of girls who are too extroverted, excessively reactive or considered insufficiently reserved. It is called
“Klatha douda” which literally means she has been eaten by a worm. Nevertheless,
“Klatha douda” is generally used to say that
“the spirit of the devil is inside her” and that the only way to force her to behave normally is to burn her clitoris and put out the fire.
Some women stated that they had been punished in this way on several occasions and that pressure was exerted on the clitoris along with the application of harissa." harissa - north african chili paste
i have no idea how apparently vagina peppering has just naturally become a punishment thing in unrelated areas, across unreachable, unknowable continents
without even cross referencing, another punishment detailed in the book was holding a kid upside down, taking him to a cooking fire, chucking peppers in it, and when the smoke gets thick, hanging them in it for however long
i'm so glad we went from prime england to thinking we needed it replaced with variants of pepperpunishment, corn starch presentation, and unchanging opposing ideologies