BODY MODIFICATION
Reasons
Entertainers Marks of identity Religious/Tests of Faith Body Perfection
Sexuality Healing Creativity/art Power Symbalisation Tribal
Self Esteem
Sexuality Healing Creativity/art Power Symbalisation Tribal
Self Esteem
"Plastic surgery is modifying the body towards what society considers normal. My art form is extreme individualism. Making you look more like everyone else is absolutely against everything that I do."
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"Plastic surgery is modifying the body towards what society considers normal. My art form is extreme individualism. Making you look more like everyone else is absolutely against everything that I do." - "My tools that I use I invented, I made, I designed, because there are no tools in the medical industry to do the kind of work that I do." -Steve Howorth
In every culture around the world there is a form of body modification, some being minor, and others viewed as being taken to the extreme. What is it that makes a person want to modify their body; what is it that makes a person turn their nose up to one who has chosen to modify themselves?
In many anchient civilasations tattoos were a form of identification. Idetification is Key when there are hosilitys between groups because it was an indication of how another person will relate to one another. Marking your body says "i am of this klan; i am this person; i belong to this group; i have a particular set of skills" when encountering a person with certain markings you know how to act around this person, how you should approach them so in other words Tatoos were an early warning system. to the iban culture taatoos also signal achievements a warrior whom brought home a head recieved the most covenen
Women in the chinese culture in the past have binded there feet at an early age to fit in to 3-4 inch silk shoes. binding of the foot was symbolic of women and showed that she would be a good wife with restaint and would stay around. the binding of womens feet showed that women had obedience and restraint and being able to place your feet into 3 inch golden lotuses ment you were a prised women. in the binding prosess the toes were broken and tucked under the ig toe to create a point and then wraped very tightly in 10 feet of banages.
Women in the chinese culture in the past have binded there feet at an early age to fit in to 3-4 inch silk shoes. binding of the foot was symbolic of women and showed that she would be a good wife with restaint and would stay around. the binding of womens feet showed that women had obedience and restraint and being able to place your feet into 3 inch golden lotuses ment you were a prised women. in the binding prosess the toes were broken and tucked under the ig toe to create a point and then wraped very tightly in 10 feet of banages.
Steve Haworth father of 3D body art says "im my opinion people get modified for one of four reasons first statuc value 2nd sexual enhancement 3rd shock value 4th