If I was walking down the street and saw a pack of tooth-sharpened teens, I would assume the cast of Twilight had taken over the city. If I passed a group of kids laughing on the playground with split tongues I would think I was watching descendants of Slytherin act out a Harry Potter performance. 
Please save the body modifications for the movies. It’s unnatural and unnecessary. 
I like to think I understand the opposition’s obsession with pushing physical limits. I have quite a few piercings and I even have a tattoo. I’ve never given much thought to anything more extreme than those mainly because I wasn’t aware there were common practices of body modification other than that. And let me say off the back that I don’t think any of these things are necessarily wrong or immoral. But there has to be a place to draw the line. 
It is becoming more common to see someone with pointed ears or sub-dermal implants around campus. I get it — you want to be different. But when something on someone’s body makes me do a double, or even triple, take it’s gone too far. 
Body modification dates pretty far back. There is evidence that types of modification involving face distortion were used as torture methods all around the world.
Yes, I said torture. So why do we think it’s okay to do these things to ourselves for beauty perks? 
It boils down to our social obsession with beauty, if that’s what you call it. We modify our bodies on a small scale all the time. Breast implants, face-lifts and even fake tanning could be considered body modification. Our society is progressing in the direction of superficiality, but I’m hoping there’s a limit to the mutilation. 
Our idea of beauty is becoming more distorted than ever, which is pushing people to change the natural state of their bodies in order to gain a sense of attraction or expression.
I don’t want my grandkids to feel like they need to get horn implants in their skull to be accepted. If things ever escalate to that degree our world would consist of multiple Effie Trinkets from “The Hunger Games,” plus a few more piercings. Modification is leading our culture down the wrong road. 
Not only are some types of modification ugly and dangerous, they’re also
unprofessional. Unless your job is to modify other people, I seriously doubt you would get a reliable career with a split tongue and sewn-in corset back. Tattoos have been around for a while and are still fighting their way into the professional world.
This is not to say that people who participate in body modification are less capable of working in the professional world than others, but it does lessen their chances of being hired in a modest profession. We all judge people off their presentation, whether we want to admit it or not. 
You could argue that body modification is a form of expression, and I would agree. Although I am still figuring out what adding on a tail to your backside is expressing. Are you trying to express the fact that you wish you were an animal? 
If you need to express yourself on that level I would have to recommend some kind of mental examination. 
News flash — body modification doesn’t give people the impression you’re a rebel soul with an animated personality. It says, “Hey, I like pain and I like looking like I work for the Ringling Brothers.”
Maybe we should start encouraging children to paint as a form of expression to divert this newly recognized need for individuality. There has to be other suitable forms of expression that don’t involve unnatural alterations and add-ons.
Perhaps our world will inevitably progress towards more extreme body
modification practices in the future. All I know is I’m glad I won’t be around to see it.