Let's get one thing out of the way: we have nothing against tattoos, piercings, or whatever weird shit you want to do to your body on your own time. Some of us even have tattoos, piercings, and weird shit that we did to our body on our own time. However, that isn't to say that sometimes, some things just really cross the line. Welcome to Cracked's list of the 8 Most Horrifying Body Modifications.
While a few things on the list came as no surprise, such as Subdermal Implants -- we've seen too many 20/20 re-runs on the Lizard Man to find weird bumps shocking* -- there were a few things on the list that, as a result of their accompanying images, have left us permanently wincing. Namely, #7: Corset Piercings (see image above). Apparently, the point of this is to stab yourselves as many parallel times as possible so as to be able to daintily lace yourself up like some sort of masochistic corset. Besides being absolute terrifying to look at, the worst part is that "the piercings are usually only temporary and will almost inevitably degrade into swollen, infected, nasty holes." Look, we know burlesque is all hip right now, but really?
And if corsets are too tame, you could always try Skull Implants, which are metal spikes sticking out of your head. Which are obtained by drilling holes in your skull, sticking metal plugs in the holes, and then screwing large and obtrusive spikes into those. Like this!
And lastly, if you're more into utterly useless and just downright creepy body mutilations, you can always have an extra ear grown in a lab using cultured cells, then have that implanted into, oh, say, your forearm.
Everybody say hooray for arm-ears!
You can check the rest out over on Cracked (including extraocular implants or, as we like to call them, creepy things lodged in your eyeballs, as well as fake mini-boobs!), but first we wanna know if you a) have any of these things or b) have something even weirder. Because that stuff is important to us. Really.
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