Body Modification

I think BM is an acceptible thing on many levels, and yet is very unacceptible on so many other levels.

Personally, I feel that piercings, tattoos and most other invasive/non-invasive decorations are totally acceptible; when on fairly creative and artistic grounds.

Even sexual modifications shouldn't be frowned upon as much as they might be.

But, when it comes to religious BM, I feel it should be more of a choice rather than compulsory; especially when it comes to young children being submitted to acts of modification before they even understand why that modification might be 'necessary'.

As for understanding any modifications people might want to have, I'd like to respond to beingbadbeingbecky.blogspot.com/ (Penny, Rebecca J.) in full agreement with her point about tattoos that have no meaning to the people who bare them. There are so many people who get tattoos in foreign languages because they look cool, and yet don't have any idea what it actually means. It really is quite an ignorant thing! I wonder if the Beckhams can actually read their own tattoos? I'm sure they ask what a design means before they get inked, but I wonder if they remember what it says a week later (they probably have it written down somewhere!) and yet these are the very people within the celebrity world who, via the media, have the power to influence others to do the same thing.

http://www.tattoos-by-design.co.uk/celebrities/celebrities.asp?celeb_id=19

http://tattoos.com/

http://www.tattoos-by-design.co.uk/