Extreme tattooing seems to be more about memory (skin as life blockchain?) while extreme piercings seem to be about something else since the ornamentation seems relatively low on information/symbolizing
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They're costly signals of tribal affiliation. Mostly just "counter-culture" as the tribe, but subcultures have their particular styles for both.
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That was my null hypothesis but I think pain management theory is more compelling
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if part of everyone's identity is a certain kind of performance, they just give a lot of extra weight to that part




