What is body modification?


 
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Body Modification refers to any kind of procedure that deliberately changes or enhances the body for aesthetic or personal reasons, but especially certain forms of body art such as piercing, stretching and tattooing. Body modification ranges massively between extremes. Common modifications include ear peircing but on the more extreme side modification can mean scarification (scarring the skin in order to create a pattern) or suspension (being suspended in the air by hooks).

No matter how public or private the body modification may be, we are constantly sending and receiving messages from people we come into contact with. As certain body modification are practiced mainstream such as ear peircing etc this message may not hold to much importance to the reciever. Although as the modified society evolves so does the types of modifications, and the more and more extreme the modification the more extreme the message the sender will receive.