Ele descreve como foi a confecção de sua CICATRIZ DE AUTÓPSIA, uma scarification braba que durou 3 horas. Por três horinhas o cara teve uma tira de pele do peito e do abdome cortada e arrancada, sob efeito de um anestésico que não o impediu de sentir dor.

O vídeo está lá no site. Existem escarificações e vídeos alheios a isso muito piores pela internet, é óbvio, mas posto pelo conceito, não pela podreira em si.

Rola até umas coisas legais, tipo

Mas o resto é

Só cricar AQUI! pra ver a galeria completa!

Créditos pro Thomaz, que não posta sei lá por que uaheuhaeh :-P

Åtte år senere har jeg ni piercinger, to tatoveringer og en scarification. Spørsmålene jeg får relativt ofte (gjerne fra eldre slektninger og kollegaer) er "Jammen hva om du angrer?" og "Hvordan kommer det til å se ut når du blir gammel?" Jeg prøver å få dem til å forstå at disse spørsmålene egentlig ikke er så interessante. Jeg har selvsagt tenkt meg lenge og nøye om før jeg valgte å gjennomføre disse tingene. Jeg gjorde meg helt sikker på at dette føltes riktig ut for meg. Kan det hende at jeg endrer mening om tyve, tredve, førti år? Selvsagt kan det det. Men det går ikke an å leve livet sitt ut i fra hva man kanskje vil synes når man er førti, femti, seksti. Vil tatoveringene mine se slitte og stygge ut på rynkete hud når jeg gammel? Ja, helt sikkert. Men jeg kommer ikke til å være like lekker som jeg er nå når jeg er 70 uansett hva jeg gjør. Og jeg vil heller se tøff og kul ut nå, enn å være litt mindre ulekker når jeg er gammel.

Jeg tok altså min andre tatovering (en stjerne på høyre albue) for noen uker siden, og det blir neppe den siste

Source: La Presse

I wanted to write my dissertation about child soldiers in post-conflict Sierra Leone - about the fact that real peace for these kids meant the chance at a meaningful life, which in the language of economics I translated into being empowered to act as participants and leaders in the post-conflict development process, not treated as 'dependents' and a drain on resources. Reading women's history, I am reminded that this role of dependent reserved for children was once reserved for women as well - maybe it is my feminism and strong desire to see every person have the opportunity to act to the fullest of their capacity that makes me feel so strongly about the role of youth as active creators of change, rather than simply passive recipients of care. Instead of studying with former child soldiers, I have been working with youth in poor communities in the United States, and with after school programs that (at least in word) are empowering youth to do this work.

I realize that my desire to work for peace and an end to war traslates into a focus on children because I believe that it is going to take generations to undo the generations of cultural indoctrination that teaches that violence, heirarchy, power-over, and war are normal and inevitable. Again, I come back to feminism - feminism, the radical notion that women are people, is also the movement to end all forms of oppression everywhere (or at least it should be). I have little faith in the possibility that major changes of any type will occur through the goverment, an institution designed to be stable and one characterized by a good deal of status-quo bias, and rather believe the change will happen within families, communities, and networks of communities - changes happen when people try to work around institutional constraints, eventually changing those constraints themselves as well.

I had a lecture today on hypnosis. It was very interesting but i have read about it often and knew all and more than what was being said. It was still nice to be told about it in a formal setting. Mind control of this sort is always fascinating. To put a gender based angle on it, the ability to make others believe i am a girl, i need to use more than physical techniques. There are so many subtle psychological signals we send out. The ability to control and manipulate such signals is useful indeed.

I got the bus back to my block and then made the long walk to the bank to sort out my student loan. If it doesn't go through soon i am going to run out of cash. While at the shops i made a few choice purchases. Hair lightening cream and a craft knife.

The hair on my arms is starting to annoy me greatly. It is far too thick and dark. Hopefully this cream should cloak the fact that i look like a woman with man arms. I shall apply it this evening before bed. If you are very lucky i should have a before and after photo. Tomorrow is the big Halloween coming out. Stand-by.

I also bought a craft knife to improve the scar that Lily gave me as a departing present. Don't think of it as self harm. It is far from that. It is self improvement. Think of it as a tattoo ir a piercing.

I plan to wear a skirt tonight after shaving my legs.

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Hace tiempo escribí un post acerca de los tatuajes, en él mencioné que muchas de las personas tatuadas son discriminadas al momento de asistir a una entrevista de trabajo. También comenté que me gustaría hacerme uno. Creo que esta chido eso de adornar tu cuerpo con imágenes y una que otra perforación, que a los ojos de muchos pueden parecer grotescas. Pero lo que ya no me parece tan divertido, son las nuevas formas de “arte corporal” que de un tiempo a la fecha han venido agarrando fuerza, son tan extremas que incluso ponen en riesgo la integridad física de quien se somete a ellas.

¿Han escuchado hablar de la Escarificación? Agárrense porque está rudo.

La Escarificación es la acción de producirse escaras en la piel. Son cicatrices producidas por cortes superficiales o profundos o por quemaduras provocadas por fuego o por un agente químico. Las heridas generan una costra que por lo general es de color oscuro, resultante de la muerte de tejido vivo.

La técnica no es nueva, se dice que en algunas culturas africanas las mujeres consideran la Escarificación como una forma de belleza... ¡vaya creencia!

Pero ese credo también podemos encontrarlo en culturas americanas, como los mayas, los huastecas o los chichimecas, quienes practicaban la Escarificación por tradición cultural. Hoy, esta técnica de automutilación se usa también en el mundo occidental con fines decorativos, como una forma de tatuaje.

No tengo nada contra la cultura de las civilizaciones antiguas, sé que todos los pueblos del mundo nos debemos a ellas. Pero no entiendo cuál es la necesidad de seguir practicando este tipo de rituales sólo para sentirnos diferentes. Al final de este post mostraré videos donde se observa el proceso de una Escarificación. Cuando vi el primero no lo aguante ni un minuto, luego terminé de verlo solo por “orgullo y patria”

No comprendo que es lo que motiva a la gente a lastimarse de esa manera. Lo cierto es que en países como Estados Unidos y en Europa, esta práctica esta atrayendo nuevos adeptos. Pero, ¿Llegará a ser tan común como un tatuaje? ¿Realmente es arte? No sé, pero yo estaría estúpido si me sometiera a algo así. Tal vez sea un cobarde de mente cerrada y de estomago débil (casi vomito cuando vi el primer video) pero yo paso sin ver. Sí, me gustaría hacerme un tatuaje pero creo que hay límites y, para mí, la escarificación es uno de ellos.

Los videos que van a ver a continuación son sangrientos y explícitos. Si crees que eres de mente débil no lo intentes… en serio.

¿Qué opinan?. Mis respetos para quienes lo hacen, pero no sé que quieren demostrar. No me vayan a decir que no es doloroso, si me duele cuando me corto un dedo con una hoja de papel, ¿ahora esto?... Qué Caray!

Body modification (like tattoos and piercings) is becoming more and more mainstream as evidenced by a recent article on msnbc called Generation of Tattooed Workers Leaving a Mark:

"The face of the young American worker is changing, and it’s increasingly decorated with ink and metal. About half of people in their 20s have either a tattoo or a body piercing other than traditional earrings...As a result, employers are finding that dress codes may need updating. In some cases, bosses are loosening up to attract young talent. In others, managers are adding new rules to keep body art covered up."

While more people are getting bod mods, more companies are fighting against it.  The article goes on to mention the the lawsuit against Costco Wholesale, brought against them by an employee who claimed she was being discriminated against because of her eyebrow piercing (which Costco won).   She claimed religious discrimination since she's a member of the Church of Body Modification.

Tattooed and pierced Wall Street lawyer, Marisa Kakoulas, discusses the case, employee discrimination against those with body modifications in general, and her own personal experiences in her article Employee Discrimination: Be Careful What You Sue For:

"On my first day of work at a stereotypical Wall Street law firm, four other lawyers took me for a fancy lunch to welcome me into the fold. All of us in dark suits and pasty white faces politely conversed about acceptable topics, all the while making sure we were using the right fork, until the moment when a man with neon hair, neck tattoos, and multiple facial piercings flashed before the window next to where we sat. The forks dropped. The man outside walked on. But his presence still lingered at our table.

“I don’t understand these freaks with all the tattoos and piercings,” started one at our table, and the discussion spiraled onwards towards burning the modified at the stake. Fortunately for me, my piercings and tattoos at the time were easily covered, otherwise I would’ve gotten singed.

...Or fired."

Conservative corporations may be adverse to eyebrow rings, but I'm guessing that people in most parts of the world have seen them enough to where it isn't even noteworthy enough to merit a second glance (or a raised eyebrow, if you will).  Although my view on this could be skewed as I live in Southern California, an area not known for its conservativeness.  While more of the regular folk embrace body art as acceptable (a tattooed bicep doesn't automatically label you as either a sailor or a criminal like people might have assumed a few decades ago), those on the edge of the fringe continue to push the boundaries of what's possible and what's socially acceptable.

Luis Garcia, international liaison for the Association of Professional Piercers, said it best in a recent article called Split Tongues, Implants Take Body Art to Extreme:

"With television shows profiling tattoo shops and increasing numbers of piercings in the mainstream, more people are searching for procedures for the 'one-upping factor.'"

Following are a few (painful looking) ways you can modify your body.  All these photos are courtesy of bmezine.com, mostly from their modblog.  WARNING:  Before you go cruising around this site, be aware that it contains photos of modifications to parts of peoples bodies you might not want to see; also, the pictures below, while not of anyone's private parts, may be disturbing to some, so click with caution.

(And do me a favor -- if you strongly disagree with these practices and want to voice your opinion, do so here and not there, and spare them the drudgery of having to delete or respond to yet one more negative comment, as I'm sure they've heard it all before.)

• ear plugs 
• ear tunnels
• gum piercing
• ear pointing
• microdermal anchors
• surface bar piercing
• stretched septum
• porcupine quills 
• corset piercing
• lip corset piercing
• labrets 
• tongue splitting
• subdermal implants
• kavadi
• scarification
• skin removal
• or just get everything

And if you think that's freaky, I didn't even include teeth filing, nipple swelling, urethral rerouting, or self amputation in that list.

Considering the extreme changes you can bring about in your body today due to technical and medical advances, where will the future take us?  Some people are considering this question already.

Adam at bodymod.org has written an interesting post linking to Philips Electronics regarding a concept for an interactive tattoo:

"The general premise is that you have some type of electronic ink / blood pathogen(?) under your skin that reacts to various stimuli across your skin. This is my guess on the workings, as it's not described in theory anywhere. But the jist is that you turn your skin into a multi-touch, nerve reacting LCD screen that dynamically draws out tattoos on your skin to match the stimulus."

To go directly to the conceptual video, click here.  Although not body modification oreinted, Philips has other cool and futuristic ideas you should check out as well, including the skin dress and the emotion sensor (expect a lot of hubands to buy this for their wives).

Quinn Norton, who gave a talk entitled Body Hacking at a recent ETech conference, is interested in going beyond merely cosmetic modifications and hacking into our bodies to improve their functionality.  She had a rare earth a magnet implanted into her finger which gave her the ability to sense electro-magnetic fields, as discussed in this article at worldchanging.com:

"...she could feel the hard drive spin up under the load seconds before her laptop began stalling, she could could tell if an electrical cord was live, feel running motors, security devices, etc. She explained that very rapidly her brain had adapted and developed a sixth sense."

While I'm not at all into the whole tattooing/piercing subculture, any future invention of interactive tattoos and sense-improving, body-interfacing technology could potentially and quickly make me into a devoted and hardcore practioner of body modification.

Giesha Scarification By Anders @ Dragons Lair Tattoo in Brisbane Australia