There has been a global rise in demand for plastic surgery, which represents the simultaneously growing believe that fixing the outside will fix the inside.
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Wales’s intimate piercing ban takes away bodily autonomy for under 18s.
In the mid-1990s, body modification enthusiasts – a long-ostracized subculture – created an online community that incorporated blogs, dating and wikis.
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Even though Facebook claims to be a global community, its rise has come at the expense of online subcultures for marginalized people, from body modification enthusiasts to drag queens.
Tattoos are a part of mainstream culture and an everyday expression of our aesthetic impulses. That wasn’t always the case, and the history of the tattoo lets us chart changing ideas about the human body.