Body modification

This week in class we have been reading a lot about body modification and different ways it can be preformed. I think that this topic is something that is very touchy and can be interpreted in many different ways. These body modifications can go from a simple tattoo to branding yourself and people have many different options on what these body modifications mean to them. We read about four different people who had 4 different experiences with body modification. One was a man who cut himself. He worked in a mental hospital and for his form of body modification he cut different patterns into his skin. this caused him a lot of problems because he worked with mental patients and he his boss didn't think that he himself was mentally stable, and in the end cost him his job. I think that sometimes these extreme forms of body modification do have negative impacts, but it also isn't my place to judge what they are feeling or why they do these things to their body.