Body Modification

Have just recovered from seeing a load of pictures of rather invasive procedures designed, in many cases to promote sexual pleasure for women.

Is body modification bad? Small things like tatoos and cutting your hair are acceptable but say splitting your penis in half or placing rings all over your face so you can be lead like a bull at a show are taking things into the extreme.

Saying that though if you take in to acccount the cultural differences between us and the places where these were concieved it is understandable when the concept of sharing pain is looked at. If women have to bleed regularly and have children then men must do something to equal the balance. It seemed to me that the majority of these procedures were trying to improve sex for their partners or decorate their skin with stories or symbols showing off their achievements.

I managed to find some pictures of body modifications that used to be popular in Africa before the invasion of Western culture. They are all displaid by white people that have them as a gimmick and that may be the only way that these designs and styles may survive.

http://sickflash.com/3d_body_mod.html

As abnormal as these are I cannot see anything morally wrong with inflicting this on yourself. If this is forced on you for one reason or another then there might be a moral issue but it tends to be for religious reasons such as Jewish circumcision so it could be argued it is needed for moral salvation!