i read a short story in a literary magazine, i know it's not the most distrubing of things, but it was about a woman admitting her obsession with other peoples skin as if it was a healthy thing for her to be doing, that she was fascinated, even aroused by peoples birth marks and discolorations and such. She hated her own birth marks and freckles and when she saw someone elses she delighted in it. But a more disturbing peice i read was about a young man who was extremely religious and went to some religious retreat and found himself masturbating and felt that it was an unpure thing to do so he chopped his hand off in a barn and lived through it.
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