“Tattooing and body piercing are popular among young people today.” There are many answers to this statement. Some believe that tattooing and body piercing is a form of self-mutilation. Many believe it’s a form of expressing yourself. Finally Most believe that it’s a form of rebellion, particularly against your parents.
Many believe it’s a form of expressing yourself. Expression: The outward manifestation of a mood or a disposition: My tears are an expression of my grief. There’s no particular why to define expression. The need to “express yourself” is more deeply rooted than it appears. For some, it’s a escape goat word. Similar to the phase “I was drunk.” People often use this a cough out. So when peers ask “why’d they do that?” to other peers. They reply “I was drunk” and that would suddenly make whatever they did, “ok.” So when a peer asks “why’d they get that piercing/tattoo, They can simply reply “to express yourself” than suddenly, it’s “ok.”
Some believe that tattooing and body piercing is a form of self-mutilation. Many people into Body piercing/Tattooing have come out of abusive childhoods. In the literal sense, all Body Piercing/tattooing could be seen as self-mutilation and, in some cases, it probably is. However, This is not the case for most people. It could be that people who come out of intense, abusive
backgrounds are just less intimidated about pain. My friend was in an abusive home for about four years. He/She was adopted finally, and placed in a better home. Even though He/She was placed in an non-abusive environment, he/she still had a longing to get a piercing. When he/she was 13, he/she pierced his/her own belly button. His/Her mom soon found out and made him/her take it out and let it heal. When he/she was 16, he/she got the top of his/her ear pierced. He/She never minded the pain, he/she always reminded himself/herself that he’s/she’s been in more pain than this and it was always easy for him/her to endure pain.
He/She does not believe that he/she is self-mutilating himself/herself however. He/She always claimed "Its not self-mutilation if someone does it for you!" Here is the difference: Some woman claim they are in psychic pain, and they need to relieve it or distract from themselves from it. Then be unable to stop the cutting. This kind of self-mutilation was a continual dance of pain that arose from the unconscious, seemingly out of the victim's control.
Body Piercing/Tattooing, on the other hand, is usually done with complete consciousness, and often in a celebratory state of mind. Pierces and other body art are usually considered for some length of time before the work is actually done--the art carefully chosen, the proper pierce contemplated, supportive witnesses called, even full-blown rituals written up! This is a completely different mind set than the average self-mutilator.
So, perhaps to put it another way: Some see self-mutilation as marking the body in a way to numb/distract from psychic pain, whereas some see Body Piercing/Tattooing as a way to celebrate one's body and claim it as one's own, even if it *does* involve some pain.
Finally Most believe that it’s a form of rebellion, particularly against your parents. At the beginning of this year, my friend got her eyebrow pierced. She wanted it done for a couple years, but her mom said “only when you’re 18 and out of the house.” Her mom never approved of the idea of an eyebrow piercing, she always said “why would you want to ruin your beautiful face?” She never really understood why this eyebrow piercing would make me suddenly ugly in her eyes, but at this point, she could really care less about her opinion. So her mother played a big part of the reason why she got the piercing. She claimed “I wanted to show her I am my own person am fully capable of making my own decisions.”
In conclusion, I ask you, do the MDs who stick us with hypos practice you this: mutilation? When an organ must be removed due to cancer, is this mutilation? Where is the line drawn? We say body piercing/tattooing is wrong, that it’s mutilation. Why wouldn’t removing an organ or MDs sticking us with hypos be any different than body piercing/tattooing?

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