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Top 6 Most Extreme Body Parts
Ears stretching
It is not possible to tell which are the first people who started to stretch your ears or why they started doing it. Today many cultures, including our own, practicing the art of stretching the skin in a very reasons.
Among the people who practice this body modification, the most frequently cited reasons are specific religion, rituals survived through the millennia, purification from evil, sexual temptation physical beauty.
As latitudes, where you can meet people with this specific look they are diverse – from the Masai tribes in Kenya to the Huaorani people in Amazonian Brazil.
This ancient fashion was popular even in some parts of Thailand.
Extreme piercing
For some people the drilling of the oral cavity with a large metal chisels and poles is more than extreme, but some Thai tribes, it is completely okay. They ignore the pain because this ritual is a journey from childhood to adulthood.
Practicing this extreme piercing can be seen during the 10-day vegetarian festival in Phuket, where hundreds of young people themselves perform the procedure on themselves.
Curiously, this instrument is used as a kind of meditative state in which they fall spiritually elevated local representatives.
During this trance they begin to communicate with the gods.
Teeth grinding
Tribal grinding of the teeth is carried out manually using a variety of tools made specifically for the purpose and is usually made of the upper incisors. Historically, this type of body modification has been practiced by many different cultures.
In Bali, for example, teeth are being grinded because they were the reincarnation of anger, envy and other negative emotions. Aborigines and even Sudanese have done this by giving the adult kind.
In the traditions of the Mayan culture, teeth grinding is being practiced only by people of high society.
Alligator skin
Sacrifice is being made by many people around the world, but it is practiced in the strongest degree by the tribes in Papua New Guinea as part of the ceremony for the identification of men.
This ceremony takes weeks and is composed of many individual parts, which themselves are quite humiliating and painful. A rituals such as cutting the skin off the young men by the elders with the aid of razors in a certain way, so finally it becomes like an alligator skin.
In the tribe is believed that the alligators will “consume” in young children and they will become men.
Limb piercing
Limb piercing, known as plug for oral or oral disc is a form of body modification that aims to stretch the lower, upper or both lips using increasingly larger boxes, which are placed in pre-made hole.
The oldest archaeological evidence for the practice of this custom are found in Sudan and Ethiopia in 8700 BC, In Mesopotamia in 1500 BC, and in continental Ecuador in 500 BC.
Today the practice has been preserved in some areas of Africa and the Amazon.
The reasons for that stretching the lips started to make are not entirely clear, but many sources claim that the discs are a sign of social and economic importance in the hierarchy of a given tribe.
Neck ring
Kenyan and northern Thai women are known for their amazing stretch neck necklaces that bear permanently. They are often called “long-necked” or “giraffe women” and are able to put up to 25 metal rings once, never down.
Myths claim that if they do, then their necks instantly break because they are drained and delicate and are not able to support the weight of the head. In fact, this is not true.
Children receive their first ring in five years. When their number reaches 25, their total weight is equivalent to about 2 kg.
Indeed, the Kenyan women stretch their necks. The truth is that with the addition of each new ring weight increases and starts to push the collarbone down, compressing it at the chest. This is the reason neck ladies seem long.
