John Paul Grips on Nostr: My morbid fascination got the best of me again and so I'm browsing /r/bodymods and ...
My morbid fascination got the best of me again and so I'm browsing /r/bodymods and it's pretty disgusting but at the same time I can't just stop looking at these freaks. I haven't felt this way ever since /r/watchpeopledie shut down.
To give you a rough idea, this seems to be a community of people that like having tattoos, piercings, tunnel earrings etc. and often push all of it to the extreme. There's stuff like tongue bifurcation, ear notches, scarification ("tattoos" made by cutting the skin in shapes), eyeball tattoos (some of them fully blacking out the sclera), various skin implants, all kinds of uncomfortable piercings and so on. Sometimes quite an amount of visible blood. Lots of "normal" tattoos too, don't get me wrong. Visually there's lots of leftist, creepy and satanic themes, which shouldn't be surprising. :reddit: I've picked a few of the "safer" ones to go with this post as representative samples. (The ear tunnel guy claims to have a human bone insert in there.)
There's some trans crossovers too, which shouldn't be surprising either, but the nonchalancy with which it's presented and responded to just astounds me. It's not just your "classic" genital surgery or HRT, there's women who had their nipples removed and smoothed out, guys that deliberately removed their balls... the most extreme version is "gender nullification", leaving behind nothing but a thin scar. It's no longer transitioning towards anything (or at least attempting to), it's just mutilating yourself and the comments fawn over it and congratulate the OP as if it's just another piercing. Stunning and brave!
It's very strange that I can't put my eyes off these freaks because I really don't want ANY of these procedures done to me - in fact, it probably just ruled out the option of me ever having any tattoos. I want body mods as much as I want to die while watching people die. It's fucked up and I don't know why I keep looking.
To give you a rough idea, this seems to be a community of people that like having tattoos, piercings, tunnel earrings etc. and often push all of it to the extreme. There's stuff like tongue bifurcation, ear notches, scarification ("tattoos" made by cutting the skin in shapes), eyeball tattoos (some of them fully blacking out the sclera), various skin implants, all kinds of uncomfortable piercings and so on. Sometimes quite an amount of visible blood. Lots of "normal" tattoos too, don't get me wrong. Visually there's lots of leftist, creepy and satanic themes, which shouldn't be surprising. :reddit: I've picked a few of the "safer" ones to go with this post as representative samples. (The ear tunnel guy claims to have a human bone insert in there.)
There's some trans crossovers too, which shouldn't be surprising either, but the nonchalancy with which it's presented and responded to just astounds me. It's not just your "classic" genital surgery or HRT, there's women who had their nipples removed and smoothed out, guys that deliberately removed their balls... the most extreme version is "gender nullification", leaving behind nothing but a thin scar. It's no longer transitioning towards anything (or at least attempting to), it's just mutilating yourself and the comments fawn over it and congratulate the OP as if it's just another piercing. Stunning and brave!
It's very strange that I can't put my eyes off these freaks because I really don't want ANY of these procedures done to me - in fact, it probably just ruled out the option of me ever having any tattoos. I want body mods as much as I want to die while watching people die. It's fucked up and I don't know why I keep looking.