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Originally posted by pocon1
If you hate yourself, go get some psychological counseling.
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Just for the record, most people into heavy body modification don't hate themselves. Rather, they do these things to make their body more into the image that they consider as perfect (be it conceptually, aesthetically, funtionally, etc).
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Originally posted by zxello
... i would think that atleast most of them are consentual (a.k.a wtfiswiththe circumcision)
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Female circumcision is often done voluntarily to either increase sexual pleasure (by removing or splitting the clittoral hood) or in more rare cases, to make oneself chaste (by removing any of a number of pleasurable spots). Also, some of these are done to increase the aesthetic value. Some people don't like the look of large labia, or prefer to expose the clit (via hood removal).
And for those that are opposed to the idea of adult women voluntarily choosing to have their genitals surgically altered, what are your views on the current US trend of circumcising males at an age when they're too young to decide if they'd rather be cut or uncut (and usually at an age too young for anesthetics)? Should one be more permissable than the other?
edit: And as for my personal experiences, no, I do not currently have any surgical mods. I do however know several people with subincisions, split tongues, headsplits, etc. (I'm a long-time member of BME's online community, and it's rather common for members to have these more extreme bodymods)