My interest in the motivations of individuals who modify their bodies, especially in cases where the modification may not be culturally acceptable, has led me to explore web sites containing essays describing personal experiences of body modifiers. ... In one article I found on the Internet entitled Modern Primitives, there is a story of a woman named Elizabeth, who had been in an abusive relationship for about a year. ... (Modern Primitives, 2) I have found this story to be a very common one. ... As one author wrote in an essay found online: "I chose to scar my body, not because I hate it bu...

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