The craze of 'body modification' (BM) has caught on among young people and even young Christians too.
The diverse methods of BM include: piercing, tattooing, scarring and even branding. This appears not to be just a craze that will die out tomorrow, but an identifiable part of postmodern subculture.
Why do they do it? Usually youth trends have to do with staking a claim to personal identity, often, but not always, in rebellion against their parents' gneration. There are BM sites on the internet, and it seems that BM shops are proliferating in the USA.
