My suggestion for people planning on this body modification is to do it for beauty, not for shock.

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Like many sci-fi visionaries, he has watched where the culture was going and pursued its logical ends, including virtual realities and body modification (notably in "eXistenZ").

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Recent concerns about too-skinny models, increasing interest in exposing Photoshopped versions of already-beautiful people, and of course the constant use of celebrity plastic surgery as a topic for satire suggest that there is a broad undercurrent of distrust about body modification that places people too far outside a certain norm.

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