A few of my friends have got implants… and apparently and obviously – they do fucking hurt!! The people who do body modification and things professionally aren’t allowed to put anaesthesia on the subject, same with people who have metal implants which stick out of them a bit (I forget what they’re called). Mainly I think because society see it as something way out of the norm (regular piercings and tattoos have become more accepted now), and changing your looks so dramatically into something more ‘strange’ or ‘mythical’, and completely not the ‘typical human form’ like body modification such as plastic surgery would result in.
I don’t really like the look of the ‘under the skin’ implants… and the one that guy has on the video is just ridiculous. The metal spikes and things can look pretty though. =]
My friend Tim has recently had some metal spikes impanted into him (the ones that stick out, not the ones that hide under the skin)… no numbing equiptment, the person doing it basically had to pierce a hole, and and cut some of the skin away before placing the metal inside him – it even took her a fair few times to achieve this successfully as she was training on him. Ouch!
My friend Alice was on TV not long ago on a programme which discussed scarification, implants, and just generally more extreme body modification, and of course suspension (being suspended in the air from meat hooks put into your skin… no pain killers, no nothing – just a pure adrenaline rush and uplifting experience). The other day on a chat show, I saw two people performing a “Tug of War” or a “Flesh pull”, which is basically two people with meat hooks in their back, attatched to eachother by string and pulling at eachother. The skin, because of where it is, rarely rips.
I would actually love to try out a suspension to see what it was like – kind of pushing your body to see how far you can go etc. ‘The Flesh Pull’ makes me a bit queasy though lol, don’t think I could do that.
I also know some people who have had scarification done, which involves dragging a scalpel down the skin in a pattern or picture of their choice, and then doing it so the cut is a sort of / shape, so it scars well.. I have been told that this part is very painful in itself, but the fact you have to keep scrubbing at the wounds (getting infected seems to be a bonus) so that they scar well is a worse thought lol. (My pain threshold is not very high haha).
