Safety Pins (razors, cutting, etc.) were big in the 70s too...
Posted on 02/28/2005 3:31:42 PM PST by Zhangliqun
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up. "Cutting" refers to self-mutilation -- using knives, razor blades or even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body -- and it's spreading to a school near you.
Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney Love and the late Princess Diana. On the Internet, there are scores of websites (with titles such as "Blood Red," "Razor Blade Kisses" and "The Cutting World") featuring "famous self-injurers," photos of teenagers' self-inflicted wounds and descriptions of their techniques. The destructive practice has been depicted in films targeting young girls and teens (such as "Thirteen"). There is even a new genre of music -- "emo" -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.
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What effing planet do these people come from???
It's surprisingly common with females. Way more than you'd imagine. Bad stuff.
Its a common practice of individuals - mostly female - suffering from borderline personality disorder.
After tattoos and body piercings, what did you expect?
This is a serious psychiatric illness: Borderline Personality Disorder among narcissistic, hystrionic young women, generally. If you want a life of your own endless emotional suffering, marry one of them.
Same reason some people reach for alcohol or drugs. To take their mind off whatever problems are eating them up.
I prefer going to the gun range for some recoil therapy though. It doesn't leave scars, just an empty wallet *doh*.
What....their watching CBS, NBC, CNN, and ABC...all at the same time?
What did you call me?
If you look up "Borderline Personality Disorder" in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistics Manual it may shed some light on your question.
Many of them hide it. Reading up on it, it sounds like almost a self drug. It causes as endorphin rush.
Awful
Thta's so old school, they've been doing that in India forever...I remeber seeing crap like that in National Geographics from the 1960's...that was in the 1980's...
Include branding in that list, as well.
Hey, if they want to cut themselves be my guest. As it is, the nuts have pierced every part of their bodies including their genitles which makes it fine by me since I don't have to live near them or look at them, but their Parents (ha)do and who are reminded by the wounds, What Have We Wrought? every day how they have transgressed against their children by not acting like parents.
So quite a few will die and the Darwin Effect will prosper since their nutty genes will perish with them thus cleansing the genome of all human beens.
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