Body modifications.

[ProtoChaud]

I think I'll just go with Jesus on this and say my body is my temple and my body is the temple of God. What does God look like to you?

Also,
[spoiler]Cut vs. uncut GO.[/spoiler]

UNCUT MASTER RACE

[bd648]

I don't particularly care one way or another as long as it's done well and isn't done for the sake of being extreme with it.

[cipher]

I think there's a big difference in regards to all these things in regards to their intentions. Some seem to do it for attention, some for thinking it makes them look better, while others do it based on what it represents. There are probably more reasons, but for me at least, the intention plays almost as big a role as what the modification was to begin with. Of course that sort of opens a whole other debate more focusing on the character of an individual, not really on topic here though.

[ZennyPLUS]

I think there's a big difference in regards to all these things in regards to their intentions. Some seem to do it for attention, some for thinking it makes them look better, while others do it based on what it represents. There are probably more reasons, but for me at least, the intention plays almost as big a role as what the modification was to begin with. Of course that sort of opens a whole other debate more focusing on the character of an individual, not really on topic here though.

No no, I want the topic to be here. We haven't had a good conversation thread in a while, this is good.

[dilly]

I only date people with "No regrates" tattoos

[Unless]

As far as dating people with physical traits I find repulsive, well personality can overcome a good amount. If I like someone, I like 'em, though admittedly it would take longer to realize that I was even attracted to them if they were too 'extreme' for my taste.

The gauging thing was just a random thing I threw in because I tend not to like them and wanted other peoples' opinion of them.

This is a similar way of thinking to my own, which is why I don't claim to be outright disinterested in guys. I have similar feelings on ear stretching in that I sort of dislike looking at them. But I used to equally dislike tongue piercings, and now I want more.

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The only opinion I have on this is that I'm morally offended that people feel entitled to claim uncircumcised penises look gross (where circumcised ones don't) (and that they wouldn't date a guy without it done). But maybe this is like many other things and I'm being a hypocrite in some ways. I haven't given this much thought.

Lorena has a tongue piercing but hates ear piercings ...

How odd.

I think I'll just go with Jesus on this and say my body is my temple and my body is the temple of God. What does God look like to you?

an anime girl with perfect anatomical ratios

So what you're saying... is that God doesn't exist.

I think that a person really needs to find their self and really mature before getting a tattoo.

I think there's a big difference in regards to all these things in regards to their intentions. Some seem to do it for attention, some for thinking it makes them look better, while others do it based on what it represents. There are probably more reasons, but for me at least, the intention plays almost as big a role as what the modification was to begin with. Of course that sort of opens a whole other debate more focusing on the character of an individual, not really on topic here though.

I think most people I know that get tattoos think of it not as something they'll necessarily always love forever, rather the tattoo will stand for a time in their life where they felt strongly enough about something to get a tattoo for it. Either that or it's that they feel it's not such a big deal. I have a number of scars, too. They're just features.

In the former case, which the main reasoning behind my tattoos, I like to have an idea of which tattoo I want for at least a year before going to get it done. However strongly you feel about something, if it came about so quickly, it's probably not a good idea to act so surely. I know an ex of mine who got her girlfriend's name tattood on her, and they'd been dating for a couple of months, which made me cringe a bit even before they broke up.

[rtil]

I think I'll just go with Jesus on this and say my body is my temple and my body is the temple of God. What does God look like to you?

an anime girl with perfect anatomical ratios

So what you're saying... is that God doesn't exist.

or that god takes on your personally idealized form

or is your waifu

[crackers]

people can do what they want i couldnt care less

says you, with your perfect looking, popular, conventionally beautiful girlfriend?? i dont think you're allowed an opinion in this thread you mainstream snake

[soup]

ill come back later when ive got some piercings

[crackers]

prince albert

[SHADOWFOX2]

For now I just want to scout what people think about (or would they consider dating) people who have, or if they'd ever consider getting, the following

Haircuts are okay, granted they are what I think they are
Highlights? Sure, and let's throw in hair dye as well, I like coloUrs
Contacts? Yea, 'cause style is okay, and now you can SEE while you do it

I generally don't care for piercings or tattoos, like at all.
My standards are already kinda high, so I gotta REALLY like you for that

So the question is, would I date some with an alternative lifestyle?

... and/or physical traits you may find repulsive, which was actually the main point at which I was getting.

An alternate lifestyle? Depends on how alternate this lifestyle is.
Physical traits I may find repulsive? Probably not.

This was never meant to be a complete list of everything you can do to your body, just to cover some bases and make people consider; why might they have a problem with a real tattoo and not a fake one of the same design in the same place that's consistently being renewed.

I like my m8s pure

But you obviously didn't read the full question because I'm also asking if you'd ever consider being a woman you find attractive

Would I ever consider being a woman I find attractive?
Sure.

[crackers]

Grudgingly, if I'm honest, as much as I'd like to say I'm not judgemental towards people with piercings and the like, I think I am.

More often than not, I find myself thinking that a pretty face has been spoiled with piercings and/or modifications. I can appreciate the artistic expertise involved with doing tattoos, but it doesn't help that the only people I know that have tunnels and their septum pierced are now in jail or fallen off the face of the Earth.

On the right person they can look quite cool though, and I'm sure my somewhat old-fashioned opinion is in the minority. I hope I've not offended anyone with this, and if so please understand it's just my opinion.

[Unless]

I like women whom I find attractive

But you obviously didn't read the full question because I'm also asking if you'd ever consider being a woman you find attractive ― something about which I hear Zwimmy is your go-to gal.

Does taking estrogen to grow boobs count as body modification?

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't exactly what I'd had in mind, because I've lately been mulling over what would happen if one were to get a nipple piercing before undergoing this HRT. Probably nothing good, but still. For science.

Nah, I'd never consider being a woman, I'm extremely comfortable as a man, though I've come to realize over the past few months that I'm some level of bisexual, though leaning straight. Though sexuality and gender aren't tied together at all, really.

Nipple piercing. Ow. Good luck with the HRT though.

Yeah, rather than a legitimate question, that was more a general jab at Sam for not having actually answered the legitimate question in his response.

Grudgingly, if I'm honest, as much as I'd like to say I'm not judgemental towards people with piercings and the like, I think I am.

More often than not, I find myself thinking that a pretty face has been spoiled with piercings and/or modifications. I can appreciate the artistic expertise involved with doing tattoos, but it doesn't help that the only people I know that have tunnels and their septum pierced are now in jail or fallen off the face of the Earth.

Unlike many other physical features, piercings are 100% voluntary most of the time by the person involved and even if you like to think of yourself as not a shallow person at all, they are at least indicative of the fact that the person in question doesn't too much mind being associated with the rest of the sort of people who would get a piercing on their face.

But I guess that's true of anything.

[Bamyasi]

I don't really care about piercings. I mean they can be taken out. Navel piercings are kind of hot.

That said, as with any kind of body modification (tattoos, genital mutilation, even HRT to a degree) they're pretty tribalist. I don't necessarily find that to be a negative thing either, it's just interesting how our humble hunter-gatherer roots play a role in contemporary everyday life, as much as we'd like to believe agriculture, technology, progress etc. have made a significant difference. We're still just weird, hairless, bipedal, neotenic hominids.

Unlike many other physical features, piercings are 100% voluntary most of the time by the person involved and even if you like to think of yourself as not a shallow person at all, they are at least indicative of the fact that the person in question doesn't too much mind being associated with the rest of the sort of people who would get a piercing on their face.

So basically I agree with this. I think it's worth noting that ear piercing is forced on infant girls in some Hispanic cultures, which you qualified, but at least it's not something irreversible like foot binding or neck rings or breast ironing or dick/clit cutting.

I also don't consider a haircut to be a form of body modification. Hair, like fingernails, is just dead cells and keratin, i.e. not alive i.e. not really part of your body.

[Unless]

Well this was intended as a body modifications thread, including all sorts of methods of altering your body in order to change your appearance. So that's up to and including but not necessarily mutilation, which I'm told is the most sincere form of flattery.

[Bamyasi]

Well mutilation is often rationalized as a means of imitation so you're not far off.

Ya goof.

[SHADOWFOX2]

Yeah I had definitely taken that as a form of modification

[Gladius]

if u have body dysmorphia ur better off hitting the gym than driving daddy issues spikes through ur sensitive parts

[zwimmy]

if u have body dysmorphia ur better off hitting the gym than driving daddy issues spikes through ur sensitive parts

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