num_pages: 192
description: Artistic and cultural phenomena reveals that the desire for modifying, lengthening and "perfecting" the body is one of the most pervasive obsessions. Invariably dissatisfied with whatever physical endowments nature has provided us with, we tend to view ourselves as "deficient beings" (Sigmund Freud) In everyday living we also enjoy amplifying and enhancing our bodies by exaggeration - artificially lengthening of hair, applying false finger nails, wearing jewellery or high heels, tattooing, piercing, fetish or muscle growth by body-building, breast enlargement, etc.
language: English
title: Body Extensions
titlecomplete: Body Extensions
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH