Body Modification

Definition of body modification courtesy of Wikipedia- "Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human body for any non-medical reason, such as aesthetics, sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, religious reasons, to display group membership or affiliation, to create body art, shock value, or self-expression."

Types of body modification

Explicit Ornaments

• Body Piercing- further modification through stretching
• Ear Piercing (most common type of body modification)
• Pearling (also known as genital beading)
• Neck Ring- multiple neck rings or spirals are worn to stretch the neck
• Scrotal Implants
• Tattooing
• Eyeball Tattooing
• Extraocular Implant (eyeball jewellery)
• Surface Piercing- the entrance and exit holes are pierced through the flat area of skin
• Microdermal Implants
• Transdermal Implant
• Scarification

Surgical Augmentation 

• Breast Implants
• Silicone Injections
• Subdermal Implant
• General Plastic Surgery Procedures

Removal or Split

• Nulification- voluntary removal of body parts
• Hair Cutting
• Hair Removal
• Male Genital Cutting/Circumcision
• Female Genital Cutting/Labiaplasty/Clitoral hood reduction
• Frenectomy
• Genital Bisection
• Meatotomy- splitting the underside of the glans penis
• Headsplitting- splitting of underside and top
• Nipple Removal
• Nipple Splitting
• Subincision- splitting underside of the penis
• Suspensory ligament of the penis
• Lingual Frenectomy
• Tongue Splitting
• Trepanataion- drilling a hole into the skull

Applying Long-term Force

• Corsetry or Tightlacing
• Cranial Binding
• Breast Ironing
• Foot Binding
• Anal Stretching
• Non-Surgical elongation of organs by prolonged stretching using weights- 'giraffe-like' stretching
• Stretched Lip Piercings

Branding

• Branding
• Ear Shaping
• Scarification
• Tooth Filing