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Perception of human body modification
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009 The enhancement of physical attractiveness through body modifications, such as tattoos is evident in a wide range of cultures and has recently become popular also in Westernized societies. Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that these invasive body modifications could possibly act as handicap signals in sexual selection. However, knowledge about
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Body modifications and young adults: Predictors of intentions to engage in future body modification
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2010Abstract The current study employs the theory of extended self to examine fashion leadership and its predictive value of intention to engage in body modification behavior. Data were collected using a survey. Participants included 454 students from two universities located in the southern United States. Findings identify new relationships among vanity,
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Modification of Perceived Body And of Body Concepts*
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1965Introduction A SYSTEMATIC clinical investigation of patients with a colostomy which emphasized the impact of the abdominoperineal resection upon function was conducted by Sutherland et al. 9 The presence of depression, associated with the existence of the colostomy itself, was frequently reported by patients; in addition, an altered perception and ...
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The Modification of the Human Body: Controversies
2016This chapter provides an overview of the academic debate about whether or not we should limit peoples’ ability to pursue bodily modification and relates this to important results from the Technolife project. It identifies four major controversies in the debate: (1) Is freedom the Master Value of society?
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Abstract Body modifications are intimately associated with the self-constitution of humans in social groups. The documented history of body modifications almost certainly postdates the beginning of the practices involved, which might have employed more perishable materials and less clearly specialized tools.
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2020
Body modification can take any number of forms, including immunization, body piercing, administration of human growth hormone, and genital cutting. Although opposition to female genital cutting is longstanding in many Western countries, it is only relatively recently that similar ethical arguments have been voiced against the nontherapeutic ...
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Body modification can take any number of forms, including immunization, body piercing, administration of human growth hormone, and genital cutting. Although opposition to female genital cutting is longstanding in many Western countries, it is only relatively recently that similar ethical arguments have been voiced against the nontherapeutic ...
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NONMAINSTREAM BODY MODIFICATION
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1992This article examines the phenomenon of nonmainstream body modification in contemporary United States, with an emphasis on genital piercing, branding, and cutting in several West Coast cities. Based on participant observation and interviews over a 2-year period, it discusses the pleasures and problems of fieldwork with nonmainstream body modifiers ...
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Body Modifications and Breastfeeding
Journal of Human Lactation, 2015Body Modification is a group of practices that includes branding, scarification, tattooing, piercing, and other body art. This article will focus on tattooing and piercing. Archaeologists, historians, and body art practitioners note that tattooing and body piercing have been performed worldwide for over 5000 years (DeBoer et al. 2008).
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2004
Body art has been practiced for millennia, the first recorded instances being during the Prehistoric era where natural pigments derived from soils and plant materials were used to decorate the skin. Whether this was performed for spiritual, tribal or purely decorative reasons is unknown, but the act remained popular over subsequent millennia.
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Body art has been practiced for millennia, the first recorded instances being during the Prehistoric era where natural pigments derived from soils and plant materials were used to decorate the skin. Whether this was performed for spiritual, tribal or purely decorative reasons is unknown, but the act remained popular over subsequent millennia.
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