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NB: If you are squeamish, or have a problem with modifications - skip this post. Links are NSFW.

So for a while there have been these niggling little issues bothering me about how there is such restricted cross-over in the blogosphere between areas that I love dearly in their own ways. Allow me to expand: especially with regard to personal decisions such as the choice to modify your body - there seems no room for discussion. Comments threads descend into repeated exclamations of judgementality. There’s some kind of tangible sense of resentment towards a cultural critique coming within 10 yards of body modification. It’s ridiculous, but on the flipside there are some F.A. (Fat Acceptance) blogs out there that seem to over-critique everything to the point of which choosing to lose weight is equatable with succumbing to societal pressure and thus abhorrent. Admittedly that’s anecdotal because it would take me so long to find the specific posts I’ve read that on, and besides in this post I’m mainly focusing on discussing the Body Modification scene. I want to preface this by saying that I really don’t want this to read as some kind of brochure for all the horrors out there - modification is life-affirming, progressive, fun and not to mention a skill (that’s rare in a lot of studios) to be respected.

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