Once we learn waists can be altered, it can be surprisingly easy to start questioning whether ours needs changing too.
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An anatomist explains why freeze branding your skin isn’t a smart move.
One biblical verse bans tattoos, but the full story of Christianity’s relationship with body modification is more complicated.
A growing interest in plastic surgery reflects growing ideas that ‘fixing’ your body will fix your life.
A body modification practitioner has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent – even though he had the consent of the ‘victims’.
Wales’s intimate piercing ban takes away bodily autonomy for under 18s.
Even though Facebook claims to be a global community, its rise has come at the expense of online subcultures for marginalized people, from body modification enthusiasts to drag queens.
The law isn’t clear on whether someone can even consent to eyeball tattoos, skin implants, tongue splitting or ear pointing.
Scarification is becoming a popular alternative to tattooing — but there is one big difference.
Tattoos are a part of mainstream culture and an everyday expression of our aesthetic impulses. That wasn’t always the case, and the history of the tattoo lets us chart changing ideas about the human body.
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Senior Lecturer, Criminal Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, Boston College
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Canberra