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List of body modifications

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This page contains a list of body modifications.

Explicit ornaments

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Subdermal implants

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Removal or split

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Applying long-term force

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Some body modifications are the result of long-term activities or practices involved in applying force, such as constriction, to a part of the body.

  • Tightlacing – binding of the waist and shaping of the torso
  • Cranial binding – modification of the shape of infants' heads, now extremely rare
  • Breast ironing – Pressing (sometimes with a heated object) the breasts of a pubescent female to prevent their growth.
  • Foot bindingcompression of the feet of girls to modify them for aesthetic reasons
  • Breast implants[11]
  • Jelqing – penis enlargement with physical exercises by using a milking motion, to enhance girth mainly over a period of two to three months; no weights or spacing devices are used
  • Non-surgical elongation of organs by prolonged stretching using weights or spacing devices. Some cultural traditions prescribe for or encourage members of one sex (or both) to have one organ stretched till permanent re-dimensioning has occurred, such as:
    • The 'giraffe-like' stretched necks (sometimes also other organs) of women among the Burmese Kayan tribe, the result of wearing brass coils around them. This compresses the collarbone and upper ribs but is not medically dangerous. It is a myth that removing the rings will cause the neck to 'flop'; Padaung women remove them regularly for cleaning etc.
    • Stretched lip piercings – achieved by inserting ever larger plates, such as those made of clay used by some Amazonian tribes.
    • Labia stretching or pulling to enhance sexual pleasure by stimulation, particularly reaching an orgasm that squirts, multiple orgasms that flow together frequently upon climax.
    • Foreskin restoration or stretching to increase its physical size, desensitize the foreskin, move the foreskin further down the head for enhanced sensitivity and improve its appearance.

Others

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References

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  1. ^ "Scrotal Implant". Archived from the original on 21 January 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Thomas Zumbroich". oxford.academia.edu.
  3. ^ "Microdermal". Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Dermal Anchoring". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Horn Implant". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Genital Frenectomy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Nipple Removal". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Nipple Splitting". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  9. ^ Jamie Gadette. "Underground". Salt Lake City Weekly. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  10. ^ "Tongue Frenectomy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Anal Stretching - BME Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 20 February 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
  12. ^ "Ear Shaping". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Ear Cropping". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  14. ^ "Ear Pointing". Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  15. ^ "Tooth Filing". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Australian Aboriginal Rites of Passage". www.webpages.uidaho.edu.
  17. ^ "Journal of the Polynesian Society: Tooth Ablation In Old Hawai'i, By Michael Pietrusewsky And Michele T. Douglas, P 255-272". www.jps.auckland.ac.nz.