Monday, 26 March 2007

Body Modification...the best lecture so far....

I love the subject of body modification anyway so i found it totally interesting! I understand the whole concept of being frowned upon if you have piercings, tattoos or other modifications. When i go for job interviews or even hand my CV into places, i feel i have to take my lip piercing out in order to make a good impression. I had been stretching my ears but took them out recently from the impressions i thought i was giving. It is a whole fashion thing to do in my eyes, its not so rare these days. Once you modify something everyone else will do the same!!!
I'm so obsessed with this subject I'm going to list the piercings i think are most impressive and weird piercings ....
  • Corset Piercing...i want this..
  • 'Wolverine' Piercing, These are apparently temporary..I suppose they'd have to be to do most stuff with your hands..erm moving on...i got the pic from a random site!!
I just think its amazing the things some people are prepared to do to their body, I wish i had the confidence to do it!! Some of the piercings do grow out which is a bit crap really isn't it? pay that much and it falls out...I suppose they do it for the sudden rush of getting the piercing. My Mate had lots of random piercings just because she liked the pain!!!
  • Teeth and Gum piercings..Yes Gum!!! Can it get anymore random!!!

I think making peoples heads turn is one of the reasons or maybe the fact of being individual. Body modification involving piercings though is quite a painful process, the more personal places you can get pierced are said to be for sexual purposes. Saying this when i was looking for pictures especially the piercing corset one the pictures were linked to quite 'erotic' sites!!! This can go to show that body modification to an extent is a strong sexual fetish....

It is seen to people that all the modifications around are modern but most of them stem from tribes. the woman below shows that ear stretching is anything but modern.
For the members of the tribes performing these modifications it was not all a form of fashion but religion a 'Cult' thing to do. Different cultures have different beliefs so whats not seen as the norm here can be a common and ritual thing elsewhere. Whether this can get out of hand can be debated but just look at the picture below to make your mind up....


The pictures throughout show an extent of body modification, Some people go to any limits...
The following link shows some unusual piercing pics, Beware...http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/11-surface/bme-pg11.html

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