We all seem to have different ideas about body art - The most common forms of body art includes tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping, full body tattoo and body painting.
Whatever your poison, some of the fashionistas have come up with some amazing, sometimes, crazy designs.
Those more serious about body art are resorting to body modifications.
Yes, body modifications!
Body modification, or body alteration, is the deliberate altering of the human body for aesthetic or non-medical purpose, such as sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, denoting affiliation, trust and loyalty, religious reasons, shock value, and self-expression.
Body modification includes: body piercing, ear piercing, pearling, scrotal implants, eyeball tattooing, surgical augmentation, breast implants, hair removal, male circumcision, female genital cutting, genital bisection, nipple removal, tongue splitting, just to mention some of the oddities some people desire.
Some sources of controversy stem from the notion of attempting to artificially beautify the natural form of the body, often leading to charges of disfigurement and mutilation.
Extreme forms of body modification are occasionally viewed as symptomatic of body dysmorphic disorder, other mental illnesses, or as an expression of unchecked vanity
For me, I like my body the way it is, what about you?
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