I'm not sure what to make of this piece by producer Amanda Wells and that's a good thing. It's eerie. It's educational. It's an inside look at how cutting, or self-mutilation, caught on at one American school. A girl named Christie described her initiation to cutting this way: "I had an eating disorder going on at the time ... I didn't know what else to do. I would binge and purge each night and that didn't help anymore. I needed something more. Why not cut?" The reporter says 1 out of 10 teens cuts. Other reviewers have indicated that this piece appears to be pro-cutting and suggest offering it to listeners as part of a wider discussion on the subject of self-mutilation. That?s a valid point. But it?s seemingly unbalanced ending also serves another purpose: It puts the listener inside a world most of us never would venture. And that opens the door to understanding.

I think the issue of self-mutilation is an important and dangerous
one, however I feel that this piece could have covered it better. Some
of the descriptions, "games", and the music, were downright
disturbing. The feel the piece gave me was that the speaker was
pro-cutting. Also therer were some parts about teen sex which could
have been cut out, because they were irrelevant. The flow of the piece
was choppy, and while the topic is important, I think this piece needs
a lot of work, especially an overall change in tone.