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culture, people changed their bodies for various reasons. Some of the different reasons would be for religious, spiritual, personal gratification, medical or social. In recent years body modification practices such as the arts of tattooing and body piercing have experienced an increase in popularity. They have become so prolific notes Katie Zezima (2005) that a survey conducted by Harris Interactive in 2003 found that one in six adults has a tattoo. The choice I decided to write about is body…

As I read the body rituals that Miner describes such as “inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth and moving that bundle around in the mouth, also visiting a holy-mouth man once or twice a year who uses a variety of tools to locate any tooth decay, references men scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument” it was easy to identify these to our routines of brushing our teeth, going to the dentist and a man shaving his face. I believe Miner is referring to…

After graduation a person often enters into a state of rebellion. For myself, I experienced a mild form of the phenomenon. I wanted to get an ear piercing. I had grown up in a culture where tatoos and piercings had tranformed from a social taboo into a cultural norm. At my high school, anyone who was anyone had a cartlidge piercing. I was never allowed to follow this trend because my mother said that it was not practical because of cheerleading. As our textbook states (Frings, 2008) "fashion…

Of course few elderly people enter into a tattoo and piercing shop because few get them done. The people who do not agree with any kind of piercing and tattoos wonder why people even get them done. There are many different reasons and one of them is the looks they get while in public. They don’t care if people think they are weird because of the strong…

Yoongi knew what a hangover was like and always assumed that being drugged was pretty much the same. Wow, was he wrong. The time between Jimin stealing him away from the five men to Yoongi being situated on the same man's couch was lost between a dizziness that made his limbs weak. Of course, still having at least a small bit of sense left in him, it was a given that he was going to be cautious around Jimin. His caution just ended up being little shoves to the man's chest in order to get…

have tattoos is going up like crazy. “ Over 20% of adults are now tattooed”(Kennedy). As the generation is getting older you are starting to see more tattoos and piercings. “This number only will be increasing because 38% of Millennials have tattoos, approximately half of whom have two or more, while 23% of millennials have body piercings” (Kennedy). Now to me tattoos are not a bad thing, but is there a chance…

When it comes to physical appearance, there are many natural causes for the different variations of certain characteristics. Humans come in all shapes and sizes with enough combinations that it is not rare to have similar features to someone who may have a completely different background than you. Most of these characteristics occur naturally throughout one’s life, but some individuals take it upon themselves to create their own characteristics through a process called body modification. People…

Over the years, stretching an ear piercing has become widely popular among teens. The bigger that ear piercing is stretched the better it is. People find the whole idea of ear stretching to be gross and pointless. Ear stretching is not understood by older generations because of the terminology used when referring to ear stretching, the process of getting them to a specific size, and the whole idea of someone wanting to have giant holes in their ears. Older generations cannot seem to wrap their…

Tattoos and piercings are becoming a norm in today’s society, and they can be seen on the skin of teachers and Red Cross workers across the nation. Millennials have deemed these modifications as works of art and self-expression, but one Melanie Phillips poses a different point of view. She claims that these self-alterations are forms of self-mutilation, and they serve only to show how corrupt the values of recent generations have become. Her article utilizes extreme criticism of one man’s tattoo…

For decades, body modification has grown in popularity. Millions of people around the world, have been accustomed to the rise of body modifications. Countless people have come to realize the symbolism of body modifications. “Body modifications give a rite to passage, aesthetic reasons, and religious reasons to help show self-expression” (“The history of body modification” 3). Tattoos are body modifications, which are made by inserting ink into the epidermis layer of the skin. “When…