Wired and Weird
We’ve been over ModPrims before, yet there always seems to be something new in the Body Modification world. Always something to push your mind further, showing you new ways to see the same old things, and introducing perfectly fresh perspectives to behold the “weird” among “us”.
Those are things your parents do not like – I’ll give you that. Most people think body modification is just ugly and unnecessary, and they may be right, but some others find it revolutionary and, if only for this gap, it’s worth investigating.
I will post a couple of passages from an article I’ve just been tipped about, “Among the Transhumanists: Cyborgs, self-mutilators, and the future of our race” by William Saletan.
“You’ve heard of a woman trapped in a man’s body? Imagine being a one-legged person trapped in a two-legged body, said the speakers.”
“Why do we shrug at botox, liposuction, and circumcision? Why do we think it’s no big deal if models, actors, and athletes have themselves cut open for professional advancement? Why did tattoos remain illegal in parts of the United States until three weeks ago? Why did we have “ugly laws” that ordered maimed people off the streets? Why did we operate on sexually ambiguous infants to “correct” their gender, often with disastrous results?”
Good questions, no? Read the whole article here and be amazed.
Thank you.<br />
<p class="MsoNormal">The only reason such things exist now a days are
advancements in science and medicine. I would assume such things have existed
for thousands of years, the only two that stood the test of time were circumcision
and ear piercing. The later took holy endorsements when Abraham (Ibrahim)
performed circumcision on him self and his children. While Hagar, did the same
and had her ears pierced (only after Sarah swore to cut three pieces of flesh
from Hagar, and Abraham’s solution -who couldn’t say no to Sarah- was these
three acts of self mutilation)<br />
Historically, people who ventured in self inflected pain didn’t survive long
enough to spread it much, or give it a cool factor and the gene pool was
maintained clean and trimmed. But with modern age came modern medicine and a
solutions. <br />
Apparently human beings love pain. Everything we do is pain, birth is pain,
love is pain, even the very act of sexual intercourse is pain of a sort. <br />
Many of the people who venture in these kinds of activities enjoy doing it
because they think it defines them. But a whole lot just doing it out of the
urge to imitate. Most recently these trends have arrived in the Arab world with
bellybutton rings, nose rings, tongue studs and rings elsewhere. I saw a girl
that was boasting once that she had 27 piercing. Which I didn’t find cool at
all, but that’s her life and body<br />
Anyway, if self "enhancement" is your thing, then by all means, go
ahead and knock your self out. But don’t expect me to appreciate or like what
anyone is doing. I have the right to be a purist just as anyone else has the
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