Tightlacing a new and possibly dangerous body modification for women

On a planet crammed with millions of inhabitants, it comes as no surprise that an awareness of uniqueness can be difficult to achieve. For those members of the public that do not want to limit their body modification to merely tattooing, some more drastic forms of body modification have started to become more popular. Lately on the news bulletins a new trend has started to make the headlines and that trend is the ‘bagel head’. However, bagel heads are not the only type of extreme body modification that some women undertake and certainly not the most dangerous. 

The negative consequence of a lot of the extreme body modification methods have not yet been established, but as a greater number of people endeavor to be noticeable in a crowd, the health problems connected to body modification are certain to be known soon.

A woman wearing a corset to tuck in their stomach for that hourglass figure has become all but obsolete since women stopped wearing ball gowns. However, an extreme version of this has become more and more popular amongst some female body modification aficionado’s, its name is tightlacing.

Tightlacing is an extreme version of a recent trend called shapewear, where clothes are used to sculpt the body, tightlacing is something that is usually practiced from an early age and leaves the body permanently shaped. This entails the use of a corset that is tightened to such an extent that the internal organs are actually squashed together and some doctors say that this could cause serious long term health problems for the women who practice this kind of body modification.

Some of the internal organs likely to be affected include the diaphragm as this loses its ability to be effective when breathing. The liver can become misshaped and the intestines and bowel become compressed meaning that digestion can be affected also.