Baghdad's Barbie Clinic: 'Looks Good, Feel Better'

Bright pink neon lights light up one corner of Baghdad's busy downtown area of Karrada: the Barbie Clinic is open for business. Two men in T-shirts lazily guard the entrance, as women in full-figure covering robes and others in jeans walk in. Once in, the world of violence and bombings that swirls around Baghdad disappears. Instead there are pink silhouettes of a pony-tailed woman, pink silhouettes of a woman reclining seductively, and clinic workers walking around in pink...

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