Body Modification

The most basic body modification could be as simple as cutting your hair. However, it seems that body modification seems only to stand out in a society, depending on what society deems fit to be classed as a social norm. Yet even this changes, given a certain time and place. At the moment, in our western society, the stand out for body modification is extreme piercing and tattoos, full body tattooing, streaching piercings. Although, even this is changing.
Body piercing and tattoos are taking to the next extreme level. With scarification and branding seemingly taking the place of tattoos, it seems that now body modification is taking its next stand out into a twenty first century.
Another example is in certain areas of Africa it is attractive for a women to wear large metal bangles around her neck, which makes their neck longer. The longer the neck, it is deemed the more attractive the women. Although in our western culture, we would find this abnormal, as to why a women would do this to their body to impress a man.
For me, I find nothing wrong with body modification, in the form of tattoos and piercing. It is our body, we can choose to modify anyway we see fit, even though I wouldn’t like the idea of being branded my self.
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