Would you undergo plastic surgery for art? French artist, ORLAN, has drastically challenged how far one will go for art by utilizing her body as an architectural canvas. She has undergone many facial and body alterations to represent pieces of artwork and enact performances. For example, in 1990, ORLAN underwent
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“I like to watch them struggle. To see them use their dead legs and floppy feet to even just climb into bed. It turns me on like nothing else can.” This is a look inside the mind of someone with acrotomophilia–the concept of being sexually attracted to amputees–that is more
There are cyborgs living among us and the movement is growing. Bio-hacking or the process of hacking technology to “upgrade” your own body either by surgical insertion of applying it to the skin is a new trend that arose in the last 15 years among the body augmentation crowd. These
What is more important, culture or law? Would you rather stick to the law and be an outsider in your culture or break a law and be accepted among your culture? Everyone has a cultural lens of their own that they use to view the world. A huge issue arises
Self-harm has been a controversial topic for a long time. It is associated with certain mental illnesses’ and is, for the most part, frowned upon in society. The mindset that an individual must possess to engage in self-harm is one that we as a society try to change and help
Body modification or alteration is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or phenotype. It is often done for aesthetics, religious beliefs, to display group membership, shock value, self-expression, and other reasons. Some modifications are more socially acceptable in our culture such as: plastic surgery, circumcision, and ear piercings; however