I was just searching through the net, and then I stumbled across this site about Body Modification. I think that if you have to go that far just so you can be happy about your body, or just want to have "body accessories", is just stupid. Like, come on, destroying your own body. For what?
What do you think of this kinda stuff? Right or wrong? Stupid or stupid? Would you ever do this kinda stuff? Why?
I know a guy who forked his own tongue and got snake-eyes on his eyelids. That isn't including the sharpened teeth and several piercings in unusual places.
What would you do if anyone close decided too do a body modification of this scale (not tattoos and simple piercings)? Family or friends?
I dunno, I guess. Gawk, then stifle my gawking, then gawk some more. Depends if it were my cousin or my mother, know what I'm saying? Depends if it was their nature to get unique body modifications, imo.
You can do whatever you like, but when you behave in autodestructive ways you have to be stopped. There are persons who even scar themselves purposely, in the vast majority of the cases such persons are ill. Ill persons need treatment.
Ill persons are not always capable of deciding what's good for their health, so they do not have the right to do what they like with their body.
My point is that if you are mentally, physically and psychologically fine you are free to do what you like, if not you may need some sort of guidance before doing it.
Ill persons are not always capable of deciding what's good for their health, so they do not have the right to do what they like with their body.
Is there a law like that?
My point is that if you are mentally, physically and psychologically fine you are free to do what you like, if not you may need some sort of guidance before doing it.
I would just be really excited to see these people when they're 80 and 90 years of age in a nursing home. The holes from their piercings and the tattoos will have changed so drastically...
One thing that concerns me as far as piercings and tattoos and such is that the body has a way of dealing with foreign bodies in a natural way (i.e., our first defense is our skin, the cilia in our lungs, the acid in our gut). These modifications can cause serious damage later on in life, but I doubt many of the people that go to the extreme really consider such things. We may view them as 'crazies' or what have you, but it takes a lot of time and effort to clean all those piercings out. I barely wanted to deal with the two I had.
If I ever went back into healthcare, I could have a job taking care of the tattooed, the pierced, and the modified.
Once you take the earing, shaft, gauge, etc. out, these do heal rather quickly. Of course there's a good chance the idiots with gauges that make their ear come half way down their face, won't heal.
These modifications can cause serious damage later on in life,
How so? Tattoos are kept within the upper layer of skin, hence the reason they fade. There is a chance that some ink might be absorbed into your blood stream, but considering the toxic substance that plague us everyday, I highly doubt a little ink will do much.
[quote="Kyouzou"]How so?[/quote] Infections. Most, I'm sure, would be careful about going to clean places that use sterile equipment. But that is not always the case. There are those that get tattoos in the wrong parlors and contract Hepatitis C. If a piercing, which the body interprets as a wound, is not treated properly, infections can get in (anything from bacterial to viral to parasitic).
They do heal and they can heal beautifully, but they can also be a huge problem. I'm not referring to one tattoo and a cartilage piercing--though it's still possible--I mean those that have a lot of modifications done, the body rejects it, and they're compromised.
Gluteal implants, breast implants, nose jobs... Elizabeth Taylor, Donatella Versace, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Michael Jackson... They were all once great looking people and they took it too far. Botched surgeries on multiple occasions. This wasn't one surgery gone bad, it was multiple surgeries. Watch the Discovery Health Channel sometime. There are shows about bad plastic surgeries. That is still body modification. It caused some people health problems.
