Body mods

[lnr]

From a conversation on irc...

To me all of the below are in some way the same sort of thing, although I didn't see it that way until Richard pointed it out a year or so back. It made me feel a lot less bitter at people who I don't see as overweight who still want to be thinner. I instinctively still find the cosmetic surgery more distasteful than most of the rest, and wonder if others feel the same.

NB More what you find acceptable in others than what you would consider doing yourself.

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Comments

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

deliberate scarification is pretty weird and suggests a scarred psyche

...or a different cultural norm:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=maori+scarification

[naath.livejournal.com]

Depends, that sort of scarification is about looking that way - the sort where you are cutting yourself because life sucks and everything hurts and *just please make it go away* isn't an aesthetic statement. It's something with very complex roots and certainly isn't 'look at me, I'm wierd'.