
We adorn the neck with jewels and perfumes, and it plays a key role in human courtship rituals
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The Neck
Kent Dunlap (University of California Press)
The late writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron famously felt bad about her neck. Ephron’s concern, as expressed in her best-known essay I Feel Bad About My Neck, was ageing, and the neck in particular as a “dead give-away” of the passage of time. The visibility of the area and “the truth” it exposed was cause, for Ephron, to cover up with turtlenecks and scarves.
For Kent Dunlap, a biologist at Trinity…

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