Extreme Tag

For those without experience or knowledge of body modification, the mere mention of the term could well ignite a sense of fear or dread. Yet in its simplest terms, body modification literally just means altering one’s outward appearance – so whether you wear studs in your ears or not, the term spans the whole lot from the universal procedures of tattooing and ear piercings, through to a variety of much more more extreme, esoteric procedures, for which the resulting aesthetic is commonly considered to be outside of the socially constructed, standardised ‘norms’ of beauty (by narrow-minded folk). For some, body modification is solely a tool through which to disrupt their appearance, or a vehicle through which to face out, while for...