Scarification
» Cultural
A look at an increasingly popular form of body beautification:
Scarification transcends other forms of body modification by a mile.
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It involves cutting, branding, searing or otherwise marking skin so that a scar will develop over a chosen outline or pattern.
But scarification as body art has made a comeback in the general population after languishing for centuries as a significant cultural practice among remote tribal and first-nations people in places such as Africa, the South Pacific and Asia.
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Scarification is not cutting, the practice of self-injury whereby a person slices his or her own skin for any number of psychological reasons.
Scarification is banned in some states but unregulated in Oregon
