Types of Body Modification

It can also be referred to body alteration. It is called that way since the change is permanent. Take an example of circumcision or ear piercing. It is lifetime and you can not change it. Those are good examples of body modification methods. They are not done due to any bodily complications. They are done out of will. One can do it so as to fit in a particular class of people, as a religious passage of rite or to identify one’s self with a particular group of people. Plastic surgery is also an example of body modification.

The alteration is done by the learned, society, and also the primitive. This is because it involves some of the compulsory things like circumcision in some communities. If done be a skilled an experienced person, body alteration can make you look good and give you a desired look.

There are different methods of body modifications.

1) Body piercing

Various parts of the body can be pierced for several reasons. Parts of the body such as ear lobes can be pierced and stretched, to give one the desired look. Ear piercing is the most popular of all and is used by very many people.

b) Pearling. It is done on the genital parts for beauty or sexual pleasures.

c) Neck rings. The people who do this type of body modification are those that want to have a stretched neck.

d) Surface piercing is also carried out and is done on the flat part of the skin.

2) Surgical

This alteration is made by doctors or professionals to change or make changes to a particular part of someone’s body. Examples are:

a) Implants of the breast which are done to change the size and shape of ones breasts. Silicon gel is used to do this. It helps one get the desire they want.

b) Sub-dermal implants which are done to change a part that is under the skin.

c) Removal is where by a part of the body is completely eliminated. This includes hair cutting or removal, circumcision whereby the fore skin is partially or completely removed. We also female genital cutting for the women whereby the labia minor is eliminated. Nipple splitting and nipple removal are done, etc.

Others may include:

• Scarification

It is artistic and scars are used to get the desired look. They are formed by creating scars on the body and letting them heal. People say that the process is more painful than tattooing.

• Body suspension

Which is done using piercings on the human body then one is suspended. This is done using hooks that look like fish hooks.

• Branding

It is referred as the most painful of all types of body modification. An iron rod is heated and placed on, ones skin to create burns that destroy the nerves .The healing could take even years.

• Tongue splitting

It is one of the newest where by the tongue is cut in two equal parts.

• Tattooing which is the most common of all body alteration methods.