Would you call ramming a chunk of steel through your body parts to be self mutilation?
How about pierced ears?
I think this whole story being from Reuters is a fraud.
Is it true that Tufts Univ. did a study about breast size and IQ or is that na urban myth?
I had a pierced ear once. Taught me not to fly fish on windy days, it did.
>>Would you call ramming a chunk of steel through your body parts to be self mutilation? How about pierced ears? <<
Actually yes. It's a matter of degree. A small clip on the extreme of the pinna is only slightly self-mutilation. A dozen all across the entire ear? Wll that's about twelve times as much self mutilation, isn't it? Maybe a little more, because some of the places on the ear don't pierce as easily.
Nose rings, tongue rings, cheek rings? I'd start to question how well-adjusted a person is. "Booby rings," labial rings, pinal rings? I'd say the person quite likely has problems.
>>Is it true that Tufts Univ. did a study about breast size and IQ or is that na urban myth?<<
What's that? The larger the women's breast size is, the dumber the guys are? Seriously, if I were a eugenicist, I might want to test a hypothesis that large breasts correlate to lower intelligence. But I reject eugenics on empirical grounds, and I have never heard of such a study.