Body Modding or what the hell is wrong with people?!

[MaxwellEdison]

Why does everyone simply assume they don't understand that society doesn't like this and they won't get hired? Pretty sure they understand that. Pretty sure they don't do it to be cool either, since the biggest response seems to be "GROSS SHIT MAN"

Perhaps people have different feelings about their bodies than you do, is that so hard to believe?

 

[Arrrgh_Bruce]

i wanna know how the first guy holds his breath under water.

 

[Tyrak]

Not going to lie, I misread this as "Baby Modding" and clicked it going WTF.

But as for /that/. Yeah. It's a matter of taste. A more advanced sort of fashion, if you will. Most people are just into changing their clothes around. Some people want a more personal and/or extreme touch to it, and go with modifying their bodies in (hopefully) cosmetic and harmless ways. And much like other fashion, some people take it to an extreme or absurd level. Whereas with clothes it's more of, say...A dress made of meat, this sort of fashion's extremes tend to result in, well. The main post.

I personally am not into it. I've never done any sort of body modding. I /could/ and have considered a tasteful tattoo, maybe a small one dedicated to my religion, or a lover if I was positive it was going to be a more permanent thing. But other than that, I'll pass. I still don't get the big thing with piercings. Ow.

EDIT: Also, in response to the above, I think the first one is photoshopped. I'm not entirely sure, but there was one picture I saw like that that definitely was, and there was proof of it. Though maybe I'm thinking of a different one. Still, I thiiink it's that.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Some people want to be lizards

Maybe one day him and spiderman could fight

 

[ilspooner]

Ugh. That is just over the top. I am considering ear piercings, but this is really effing stupid. It is their bodies, but it seems they don't understand what it will do to them later. D:

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Seen things can never be unseen. My eyeballs are forever saddened by such a display...that poor truck!

But seriously, whatever makes you happy I guess. *shrugs*

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

To each their own.

 

[Firia]

People are all different. These people must feel very strongly about what they are doing in order to change themselves this drastically. Don't judge. :/

solemn advice from the first responder. It's fair to remember that the world is full of vastly different people from a variety of different backgrounds. Once you accept that these differences range from minor to the shocking, you are well on your way to being a better person.

I myself posted a brow raiser of a post some time ago. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.127981-Poll-I-want-to-split-my-tongue#2733155] The subject was tongue splitting. I didn't get one (still on the to-do list) because of financial reasons, but the thread just shows the level of acceptance some people have for something they may not entirely understand, juxtaposed with people that don't understand at all, and react to that lack of understanding with hate and spite.

The short answer to body modding; if you get it, you get it. If you have to ask, you don't need to get it. If you really-really want to know, then you should saturate yourself in the community of body modders. Talk to them, and discuss their goals. Not the why's of modding, but what they hope to gain through their modifications. Why they come together in convention'esq gatherings once a year and mode the hell out of each other just for the weekend. Ask yourself even why you want a tattoo, or a pierced-whatever. If the answer to that personal question is "I wouldn't pierce or tattoo myself," then you'll never understand, and it would be a waste of time to try.

 

[Altorin]

....did that guy really install a giant window inside his lip?

that's the most fucked up thing I've ever seen contemplated a person could do to their face.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Probably to get this exact reaction out of people?

Anyway, i fully endorse and encourage alternative visions of the "body beautiful".

Conformity is bad mmmmkay?

im all for that, but when i just cant look at people who have gauged ears so stretched out i could fit half my hand through. also thinking about people who split their tongue or hang their body from hooks, for fun, just kinda makes my skin crawl. people are free to look however they want, but as long as i dont try to restrict them in any way, im free to not be attracted to certain changes to their appearance that they might make.

also, if your changing your body, purely for the sake of being non-conformist, thats just another kind of conformity. i knew a guy in high school who has a great quote, "not having a tattoo, is the new tattoo"

I agree with you totally on the first part, while i like body art in so far as tattoos go, the extreme piercings are f-ing weird. But if it makes you happy, do it.

As for the second part, well there is conforming to the social norm and there is conforming to a social minority, there is a distinction. I think.

 

[Griffolion]

It doesn't really bother me, they are free to do whatever they want, and the consequences of their actions are their own.

 

[Vault Citizen]

that they will never have decent employment

On one episode of Argumental they were debating tattoos, as an example they had a man on the floor with extensive tattooing all over his face, one of the comedians made the point you just made and the tattooed man revealed that he worked as a bank manager.

 

[keve4433]

It simply comes down to everyone has their own tastes, if it makes you happy then do it.

 

[tokae]

i wanna know how the first guy holds his breath under water.

he can buy (or possibly already have bought) plugs to put in there so that it isn't just a display of his cranium but of silicone plastics instead


On the topic: I have nothing against people who does this sort-of thing, tattoos, piercings, brandings... If they do it there is a chance they will look like retards and they are okay with that because they want to do it. There isn't much more to say about it really.
Yes, I find it gross in many ways but in some cases it's actually quite cool so...

 

[TheDist]

My stance on anything like this is very simple, if you as an adult in right mind decide you wish to do anything like that to your own body, then you have the right to do so. It is only if things are forced onto people, or done to them as kids that I flat out object to it.

 

[moretimethansense]

Oh sod off and let people do what they want to do with their own bodies.

Also is it just me or does that third one look like Peter Molyneux?

 

[Drakane]

I personally haven't gone as far as these people because I am just not a big fan of discs or sub-dermal modding (the dudes horns). I also keep most of my stuff hidden in an attempt to get my foot in the door of an accounting firm.. after that my ink might expand.

I do have 6 gauge nipple rings, 8 gauge prince albert (ring that goes through my pee hole and out the bottom of my penis), a partial jacob's later (straight barbells that run across the top of my penis like runs of a later), and a decent bit of ink on my back. why did I do it? The ink i thought long and hard about because it will be w/ me forever and it really means something to me. The steal? Cause I like it and I've not taken it to the extreme of being irreversible