Saturday 14 April 2007

Body Modifications


In our day and age it might seem strange to classify tattoos, piercing or an odd earring as something bad, one reason being that an awful lot of people these days do it. And it is hard to consider a thing that is done by the masses as bad, yet it doesn’t seem that way with BM.
First of all in Europe people with tattoos were in the past days believed to be either convicts, sailors or in the case of women prostitutes. Drawings on the skin were associated with people from the lower classes, people who have too much free time, too much booze in their veins and not enough brains between their ears. But today even people who are bright tend to get their tongue pierced, or have a blob tattooed on their lower back part. Still even in the degenerate modern world it will be hard to find a person with a PhD. and a tattoo or a piercing. Hardly can we imagine a Harvard professor or Prime Minister parading around with a metal thingy in his tongue or lip. So although BM became very popular in our culture a person who wants to go a long way in life should probably avoid it.
There is also another aspect of BM, an aspect that has been especially emphasized during our lecture, and one that I wasn’t really aware of. The tattoos designs we’re using now have mostly come from the east, designs we acquired while filling the blank spaces on the map of the world. Tribal tattoos often have a mystical or religious meaning, and for a person wearing such a symbol without really understanding what it means seems if not offensive then at least ignorant and quite frankly daft.
A separate case consists of BM that really goes to far. I’m talking about the masochistic societies that damage their bodies by burning their genitals, castration, amputation and all other gruesome sorts of things. Having a simple tattoo is already an act of desecrating your skin, but causing severe damage to your body just for the sake of it is plainly wrong. A bad, bad, bad thing to do.


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