Body modification?

[6thsomatic]

How would my fellow androgynes feel about this? I'm not talking about surgery, more along the lines of piercings, tattoos, so on.

I just got a center labret piercing yesterday and I love it. I think it goes a way to help feminize my face a little more (drawing attention away from the chin? Helping the angles of the jawbone?)

Any other enjoy it and/or use it to help express?

[Lokaeign]

I love mods and have a fair few, tho not as many as I'd like.  My nose is pierced, but I'm not wearing anything in it at the moment.  I also have a monroe piercing, but had to take it out for one of my jobs and now I'm going to need to get it redone.  I have a black rose tattoo on my head from when I used to have a mowie/slaphead (damn I would love to start shaving my head again). 

These days most of my mods hav some spiritual significance.  I have my "employee ID" (LOKAEIGN) inked in runes down my left forearm.  On my other arm I have a ritual runic brand, 3 Gebo runes which looks like XXX.  I have two ritual ashed cuttings (the skin is cut with a scalpel and then rubbed with ash, in this case ash from a sacred fire): Loki's name in runes on my left upper torso, rubbed with ash from a fire I used in an initiation ritual earlier this year, and the Valknut (Odin's symbol) on the right.  Those last two have faded a bit and need to be redone at some point, although I'm holding off in case I decide to get a brand or whatever instead of more cutting.

I find the mods help me feel less at war with my body.  They're a reminder of its mutability, of my capacity to change and heal; also that my body, for all the things I hate about it, can still be a vehicle for the Beings I serve to work in this world.

[Nicky]

I used to be into having a lot of body mods. Perhaps it was a way of distinguishing myself - In the past I have had a couple tongue piercings, 3 lip piercings, nose, multiple ear piercings including the tragis, flesh tunnels, belly button, and a Prince Albert.

Now days I just have a couple holes in my left ear and one in my right. I would have 2 on both sides but my last piercing on the right did not take - too much scar tissue under the surface I think.

I also have a host of tatoos. I like them. Mainly colorful tribal stuff that represents my 'mixed' gender. For me tatoos have always seemed a rite of passage. Passage to what I am not sure. I have not gotten any new ones for a few years but am planning on something significant. Perhaps when I change my name I'll get a new one.

[JonasCarminis]

I <3 BODY MODDING!!!

i have my septum and eyebrow done so far.  also half inch tunnels n my ears, planning on going bigger
im planning on stretching my septum to 8 gauge
planning on getting my tongue done at 8 gauge and stretching to 4 then splitting it.
planning on dermal punches in the flats of my ears
planning on scalpeling my labret to 0 or 00 and getting a plug in it
and eventually subdermal implants.

[Pica Pica]

chet, i don't actually understand what half those words mean. I'm not really one for all that, they are all such permanent type symbols and I am not a permanent type person. If I had anything I would have a dandelion made out of question marks.

[Nicky]

I had a dream about you last night Pica. I came round to your place for a cup of tea and we sat and chatted and you gave me a hug. Then I realised I was late getting home and had not told my wife. It was good having a dream chat. Don't remember what we talked about but the tea was something like english breakfast served in china cups, and the hug was good.

[JonasCarminis]

chet, i don't actually understand what half those words mean. I'm not really one for all that, they are all such permanent type symbols and I am not a permanent type person. If I had anything I would have a dandelion made out of question marks.

pica, piercings arent as permanent as tattoos IMO.  if you would like to know what they are, i can shre some videos with you over youtube.

[icontact]

Hah Chet, I understood the terminology until after the tongue split. And was grimacing all the way through.

I might want my ear(s?) pierced. Otherwise, no. Don't like body mods. Have a ton of scars from self-harm, guessing that doesn't count.

[6thsomatic]

Faboo Chet, looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you! I wouldn't go nearly as hardcore, and some of the things you are purposing are rather permanent, but the results should do you well =D

and oh, just because...



I can't help it...So much <3333

[Kinkly]

I've been thinking about getting my ears pierced nice clip on earings are  so hard to find.
I recal a conversion I had ages ago If you were to get a tatoo what would it be.

My answer
a dotted line around my neck with the words "cut along dotted line" at the back
I haven't and probably never will.

[tekla]

No tatts, though I've been drunk enough in several tattoo parlors with others, and only one hole each on each ear. 

[Pica Pica]

Oh Nicky your poor soul. I'll try not to bother you in your sleep again.
We probably talked about books, i'm always talking about books.

[Nicky]

Oh Nicky your poor soul. I'll try not to bother you in your sleep again.
We probably talked about books, i'm always talking about books.

I enjoyed our dream liason, don't worry about bothering me. We could start a dream book club 

I like your new piercing Somy. You don't look like you need to shave much, I hated shaving around my ones. I ended up plucking with was ouchy around the holes. You should use that pic for your avatar. I like it better than your other one.

[Cyndigurl45]

Both ears double pierced usually a stud on top and a hoopin the bottom, I think my penis piercing is called a fernum but it's front to back not side to side and the bat signal tatt on my left shoulder future mods include tounge, nipples and belly button piercing along with some tribal tatts in various places including a tatt on the back of head where I will shave my nape =)

[Yochanan]

I've got lobe piercings I've had since I was five and one on my upper right ear (the piercer called it a 'helix', I think). My next one will be a left helix to balance it out. I also want a second and probably third lobe piercing in each ear, as well as ones on the very tops of my ears (I don't know the terminology, sry!). For a really long time I wanted a labret, but when I got my right ear done, I nearly passed out, so I think I'll stick with ears unless or until I toughen up a bit. I always said I wanted a tattoo, but on my 18th birthday I chickened out. I still plan to get one or two, probably some sort of star and maybe something spiritual. Not sure of placement yet.

[Mr. Fox]

Bah, Chet!  Dermal punches are for the impatient!

As for me, I only have my crappy gunned ears at the moment.  However, I plan to gauge them, albeit to a small size, get my right nostril pierced (wanted that longer than transition, hot diggety!), get sleeves (thems: one arm love, the other truth), bellybutton piercing, anti-eyebrow, industrial, snug, and septum.  And that is just the ones I am sure about.  Woah!  In consideration includes lip piercing (labret if you want to be all hoity-toity and specific), tongue piercing, maybe more ear piercings, uvula piercing (probably not), and Jeweleye procedure.

Yes, I got obsessed with bod mods in sixth grade through junior high.  Transsexualism kind of took over these past few years, but I've given a little thought to more minor modifications in the past many months.  Not much, though: most of these were planned earlier.  For me, it's good to wait a long time to make sure I want these things, as later I might change my mind (i.e. horrible idea when I was 11 to get a tattoo of my astrological sign).  Also, some would be difficult for physical reasons (i.e. tongue split, rejected partially because I play saxophone, lip piercing on side that I think already has receding gums, uvula piercing when I have a horrible gag reflex).

Adrian

P.S. Apologies to those who didn't understand what I just said, such as Pica.

[Mr. Fox]

Why the heck are all us full transsexuals replying to a post aimed at androgynes, anyway?  I guess we just think we're hot (ugh, don't think about that phrase too literally).
Adrian



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[Pica Pica]

I'm used to not understanding things....and anyway it's a body mod thread.

[6thsomatic]

Question is open for all to reply to ^_^

[Nicky]

Why the heck are all us full transsexuals replying to a post aimed at androgynes, anyway?

I take offence to this. I'm not some 'half' transexual. That was rude.

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