On certain areas of my body I have a smattering of tiny, raised imperfections.
I was going to go into these in detail - feel, location etc. But then I remembered that my husband reads this and I don’t want him to find me any more physically repulsive than he must already do after all these years (14!!!!!).
Anyway I think you know what I am talking about. Some people call it “keratosis pilaris”, small raised, colourless dots on the skin… but do they need a name? They’re just naturally occurring skin events that we, in our poreless, airbrushed satin-finished AI culture, find unacceptable.
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