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(Wounding), but Israel is turning more and more to aesthetic surgery. The negative overtones of tattooing include refusing the burial of tattooed Jews in consecrated grounds. The changes in society have forced even the most conservative to reconsider expansion of aesthetic permission, especially in cases of social isolation and psychic pain brought on by physical deformities.

Is it a matter of original skin vs. original sin?

The treatment of our earthly bodies as ordained by the religious mandate of cleanliness has been weighed against the tribal superstition or modern self-aggrandizement through modification and adornment.

Medical

From Egypt to South Africa, from the Native American peoples to the Inuit, tattooing has traditional uses as preventative medicine against illness in much the same way as the West uses vaccination. In the Sudan and other African states, the welt tattoos are not purely decorative but act as a way of strengthening the immune system or reducing the risk of infection. Similarly, a particular mark or symbol can used to enhance fertility or to boost courage. The tattoo here is not only a means of giving quick information about its owner, but as a way of using the body’s natural energy centres and sensitive points to work magically. The significance of the design, however cryptic, and the act of will in the application, create the medicine.

Source: The Cutting Edge

by angel

User notice: The custom_breadcrumbs_nodeapi() function called token replacement with an array rather than a string for $text in /web/sites/jmiller/piercingbible.com/sites/all/modules/token/token.module on line 263. user notice: The custom_breadcrumbs_nodeapi() function called token replacement with an array rather than a string for $text in /web/sites/jmiller/piercingbible.com/sites/all/modules/token/token.module on line 263. I had a triangle piercing and it has had disasterous consequences, due to the fact that the piercer pierced right through the clitoral shaft with no anaesthetic and I can no longer feel anything down there. I had this piercing checked by an outstanding female piercer, she trained the other piercer that i go to, and she confirmed that it had gone right through the shaft and that the piercer had got the placement completely wrong. I have since got the wrong triangle taken out and had the piercing done by this female piercer....

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by jerry

They eye of heaven shall guide us inwards

morporc, you should understand that by skirt, I mean something vast that can reach all hearts. I’m using a metaphor here.

Here’s a definition of a metaphor, as I assume you don’t know:

a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”

jerry answers:

“Spread your vice-less skirt, let us climber up”

You mean most of the girls you know wear skirts with vices on them/ What are they – metalworkers?

“let us climber up” is not even English.

I realise that very few of the poems posted here make any kind of sense. But this one seemed unusually bogus.

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