This is a little beyond getting a tattoo, IMHO.
Provided they live that long....
I suppose this is one way to get noticed if you have nothing else to offer the world besides your existence.
I find that these people are more often than not the kind of people who commonly refuse to engage in my personal form of body modification: going for a jog every once in a while, or doing a few crunches here and there.
Sick sick sick.
Call me a sexist, but will never cease to be amazed at the amount of pain, suffering and humiliation females will undergo in order to fit in with the crowd - no matter how disfigured the crowd is attempting to get. Males aren't exempt of course.
The female form is infinitely beautiful and one of the most obvious signs of divine creation - to despoil it with ink, barnyard appliances and three-dimensional objects is a crime against aesthetics and a pathetic display of conformism.
Far from "reclaiming one's body," it is an outward and often permanent sign that one is insecure in their own skin (literally) and would rather deal with the simplicities of self-inflicted pain rather than working out complex feelings and emotions.
"...new extremes such as scarification by cutting or branding, and decorative objects implanted under skin, or even in the whites of eyes."
I don't understand this desire for self-mutilation. I have a couple of tattoos but I think this is going too far.
I hope these kids realize that the body doesn't stay healthy for ever.
Some Africans modified their bodies to avoid enslavement. "Europeans didn't want slaves with body modifications," Kid said.
Wrong, they did this to identify which tribe they were from!
This is a little beyond getting a tattoo, IMHO.
Yes it does.....
I missed a tattoo post? Wow, where was I?
These people are totally self-obsessed and obviously have nothing better to do with their time than think about bizarre things they can do which (they hope) will gross out the rest of us. Maybe they should get a life and then they could stop making stretching their ear-lobe holes the center of their day.
Sorry.
Those places that "parents don't want to think about" wouldn't be genital piercings, would they?
You have to be 18 to get pierced (legally) or at least escorted by a parent. So who is mutilating their kid's genitals?
Stripper mommy family values.