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{{short description|Deliberate alteration of the human anatomy with the consent of the altered}}{{more citations needed|date=December 2013}}File:Scarification by Lestyn Flye.jpg|thumb|ScarificationScarificationBody modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance.BOOK, Thompson, Tim, Black, Sue, Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction, CRC Press, 2010, 379–398,weblink 25 February 2013, 978-1420005714, In its broadest definition it includes skin tattooing, socially acceptable decoration (e.g., common ear piercing in many societies), and religious rites of passage (e.g., circumcision in a number of cultures), as well as the modern primitive movement.Body modification is performed for a large variety of reasons, including aesthetics, sexual enhancement, rites of passage, religious beliefs, to display group membership or affiliation, in remembrance of lived experience, traditional symbolism such as axis mundi and mythology, to create body art, for shock value, and as self-expression, among other reasons.WEB, 16 May 1986, What Is Body Modification?,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160128093431weblink">weblink 28 January 2016, 20 March 2015, Essortment,

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File:First piercing.jpg|thumb|100px|Early stages of getting a navel piercingnavel piercing What counts as "body modification" varies in cultures. In western cultures, the cutting or removal of one's hair is not usually considered body modification. Body modification can be contrasted with body adornment by defining body modification as "the physical alteration of the physical body [...] can be temporary or permanent, although most are permanent and modify the body forever".BOOK, DeMello, Margo, Encyclopedia of Body Adornment., Greenwood Press, 2007, 978-0313336959, United States of America,

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• Adornment
• Bioethics
• Blood ritual
• Bodyhacking
• Church of Body Modification
• Deformity
• Eyeborg
• First haircut
• Genital modification and mutilation
• Genital tattooing
• Human enhancement
• Leblouh
• List of body modifications
• List of people known for extensive body modification
• Makeup
• Microchip implant (human)
• Modern primitive
• Morphological freedom

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