Articles of category "Body modification"

Body modification has become pretty popular in the 20th century. Lots of different body modification types are known nowadays and performed for non-medical reasons including social, spiritual, aesthetic and other ones. Such procedures may range from socially acceptable body decoration (for instance, piercing) to a wide variety of mainstream and extreme body modification.

Body modification tradition was inherited many centuries ago. In many cultures this art technique was used for age, gender, social and tribe distinguish rating. Today the modification item can be divided into medicine and aesthetic. The last one is a fashionable stream. The former one is real solution for many problems (for example brain, heart implanting).