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Body Modifications Pertaining to Culture Throughout history people in nearly every culture have gone to great lengths to decorate or alter the bodies they were born with. From body painting to piercing to scarification, from tattoos to plastic surgery, from the Bronze Age to the computer age, cultures from around the world have changed their ideas of how a body should look, and have altered themselves to fit their standard of perfection. In doing so …

…in our own culture we also judge others by their beauty and their beauty marks. Through the forms of body modifications people make themselves and their bodies unique, and those who find it that way are accepting of it. Beauty makes people unique pertaining to their cultures and body modifications are just one way of enhancing that beauty. As Oscar Wilde says, "One must be a work of art, or wear a work of art."