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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Since then, and the acceptance and commodification of punk (tattooing, body modification, fashion), the size of some of the challenges facing us today is enormous almost a billion people without access to clean drinking water, one billion people who cannot read, rising unemployment particularly for young people, and over 2.5 billion people without access to a toilet.

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