Secrets of Motivating People to Modify the Body

From time to time, scandals flare up in the press associated with the desire of people to modify their bodies. Guys in expensive suits and slicked-up forelocks condemn those who decide to transform their appearance in this way. Changing the shape of the ears, cutting tongues in half and even a simple piercing in the navel are called barbarism..

Sometimes such scandals lead to the fact that the country’s authorities close workshops that can implant objects resembling horns under the scalp, make ears like an elf.

What motivates people deciding on such procedures?

Special subculture

Some people go through body modification procedures dozens of times and have over a hundred tattoos on their bodies. For them, the constant transformation of their appearance is a way of self-expression. Similar to the method used by women of fashion who cannot tear themselves away from glossy magazines.

The most active body modifiers blog, where they have tens of thousands of fans. And they all share the values ​​of the author, perhaps not everyone can decide on such experiments..

What Scientists Say

Researchers sometimes refer to overuse of tattoos and other body changes as body dysmorphia, or body dysmorphic disorder. This mental disorder is characterized by an obsession with specific body parts. Rejection of them forces a person to do endless plastic surgery or mask imaginary flaws with a tattoo..

But there are many more people who order body modifications or tattoos than people with mental disorders. It has long been a part of popular culture..

Researchers at the University of Göttingen in Germany have found that these people have 10 common psychological reasons for body transformation. Among them, several options are curious..

• Spiritual change. Enlightenment, rebellion, revolt against society.
• Increasing pain thresholds, because the procedures are often carried out without anesthesia.
• Self-expression (showing love for art, emphasizing sexuality).

Many body modifiers find that walking with innovation is eye-catching. Moreover, they show contempt, mistrust, rejection. Some people like this kind of provocation. And the changed body allows you not to use special jewelry or outfits for this. Every public appearance becomes a small sensation.

Complete opposite

The opinion of scientists, society and the modifiers themselves is understandable. Some are indignant, others are looking for rational reasons, others are just having fun. And what do the workers of tattoo parlors themselves say??

They claim that many more ordinary, ordinary, inconspicuous citizens come to them than they seem. They can be godly mothers of a family, elderly gentlemen, or men who sit in gray, nondescript suits in offices from nine to five..

Apparently, the need to live within the framework of strict prescriptions exhausts a person’s soul. And he is drawn to at least some kind of protest. Even if it is not visible under decent and solid clothes.

How the industry will develop

Scandals in the press do not help to reason with people. An increasing number of those who want to make themselves fashionable horns or mini-wings under the shoulder blades. Human fantasy knows no boundaries.

Sewing objects under the skin, cutting ears, tongues, removing navels are mini-operations of a surgical type. They require caution and compliance with the measures prescribed by medical institutions..

MPs who don’t know how to stop the modification craze started thinking about other issues. They are pushing for companies that are licensed to use anesthesia to carry out small operations in clean rooms to do the modification..

The world of body modifiers ceases to be completely underground, black, gloomy. He moves into a gray zone, from which a path opens up for him to the generally accepted trends of mass culture..

Prepared by: ivorontsova (Irina Vorontsova)