i can help but to comment on the text.

some of this 'body forming' existed in all cultures, (the text above cited the extreme end)

many cultures had specific ways of (via hats, or other methods) of shaping babies head. Some native americans would keep a baby straped to a 'baby board' to make sure the back of the head was flat (something they thought looked very attractive)

In africa, ornate coils made 'necklaces' totally deformed the growth of the clavical and collar bones, (if the necklaces were ever removed, the woman would almost immediately suffer a broken neck, her bones were so deformed, that they would not be able to support her head)

in europe, (and US) just a few hundred years ago, woman wore corsets (starting at age 8 or so!) that deformed their ribs, (and often left them unable to walk up a flight of stairs with out fainting!)
and we all know the classic 'deformations' that were done to girls feet,(in china) to make them 'small and delicate (which basicly resulted in their toes (all but the big toe) being deprived of blood, getting gangrene and falling off, as well as actually bending their bones!)

today, (and while there are valid health reasons to do so, many times its for vanity) we often 'straighten teeth' with braces, and use plastic surgery (again, some is nessesary for health) is regularly used to reshape nose, chins, ears, and enlarge breasts.

We have established a "norm" and will often subject children surgery and other 'treatments' to achieve that norm. (there are children who get regular shots of human growth hormone, there parents want them to grow taller)

Sure there isn't a market today for deformed 'grotesques' but there also isn't a market today for 'hook noses' or jug handle ears, or pointed chins, or adults that are under 5 feet tall. many of these 'defects' are being 'treated' with plastic surgery on teens and preteens. (not to mention all the surgery that is done on children who are born with 'ambivient' sexual organs. )

nowdays, normal is grotesques, and only perfect is acceptable, and body sculping continues albeit to acheive different ends.

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