This matches my experience. My college archive digitizes a few yearbooks a year (for whatever classes are having as big reunion) and it’s a pain. For modern yearbooks (70s and later) we have a dozen or more copies, so we take one apart and feed it through the feed scanner, which works well. We then store the loose pages in a folder, in case we need to rescan anything.

Older yearbooks (where we don’t have so many copies) we use the flatbed scanner and the pages come out warped, so we hand fix each page in Photoshop.

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You’re right. The word is vile and I shouldn’t have made it sound like a matter of personal taste. It’s not “gross”, it’s dehumanizing. I’m sorry.

I didn’t use the term “deflowered”, I explained how it made me feel when someone else used it. I said it’s a gross term and makes me feel gross to hear, which feels like the appropriate reaction to hearing about raped children.

It sucks that you were raped and I’ll take your experience into consideration when I emotionally evaluate the word “deflowered” when I encounter it used to describe experiences similar to your experience.

tbh, “deflowered” sounds grosser to me than “rape”, in this context. It’s like spraying perfume at a cess pool: highlighting the ick by pretending to disguise it.

In other words, the term “rape” feels clinical and accurate to me. “Deflowered” feels emotional and super gross to me. Neither downplays it for me.

YMMV because emotions and feelings are like they are and your feelings are are as valid as mine.