Okay, I don’t want to be a complete idiot but I guess I have no choice. 😳
Scarification? Clarification, please. I mean aren’t all scars unintentional?
Specifically for me I am asking about scars from surgery.
In a word, no. A lot of traditional or tribal tattoo involves creating wounds which scar to form images or patterns. It’s basically a tattoo done without ink and with a deeper cut. Once it scabs, the scab is pulled off early to make the scar more pronounced. This is often repeated over and over to cover a large portion of the body. It’s a brutal process, but it can have beautiful results in some cases. Curious‘s link is a good example.
As for surgical scars, I would say no. I have a scar on my right leg where I had to have a large pin inserted when I broke it in 2002. I would not call that an intentional body mod.
I mentioned plastic surgery as a gray area because it is intentional and it is, technically, a body modification for (usually) superficial purposes a la tattoos or piercings. What do the rest of you think? Fair game or no?
Finally, does someone want to explain what “manscaping” is. Do I want to know?
I know that this is late in the game, but you might consider adding a difficulty of “must be intentional mods” because we do have a history of allowing a loose interpretation of the theme.
Either way it won’t affect me because I don’t normally run across many modded people (and I never see them when I have my camera). Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some at the junior college tomorrow…
If anyone still has questions about “manscaping” this site gives a fairly complete (and SFW) introduction to it.
