# What new cosmetic body-modifications will become mainstream?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 23, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163 "2015-12-23T11:03:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/1 "2015-12-23T11:03:59Z")
Obviously there are things like tattoos and circumcision today. I was poking around on reddit and saw there is a forum dedicated to girls with artificial tails, and remember there is a Japanese product where girls can put on some big dog like ears which supposedly will respond to the mood of the wearer ([here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw)). So I was thinking what new high-tech and mainly cosmetic body-modifications will become mainstream over the next couple of decades? And more mainstream than the freaks who poke big holes in the cheeks or put horns in the skull.
Will it soon be fairly normal to see girls stroll down the street wagging their surgical implanted tails, raising their dog ears?
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/2 "2015-12-23T11:19:41Z")
Off to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Torontonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torontonian)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/3 "2015-12-23T11:40:44Z")
> [@Rune](#):
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> …and saw there is a forum dedicated to girls with artificial tails…
like a tail attached to a dildo?
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/4 "2015-12-23T11:46:21Z")
> [@Torontonian](#):
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> like a tail attached to a dildo?
Well I don’t know. I don’t think so. Just a [garment](http://i.imgur.com/7zVy9op.jpg). But I expect they’d like if it was attached more as an integral part of the body.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/5 "2015-12-23T13:04:23Z")
> [@Rune](#):
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> Well I don’t know. I don’t think so. Just a [garment](http://i.imgur.com/7zVy9op.jpg)
I recall seeing quite a few of these in Japan in 2010; I can’t recall seeing any there in more recent years. Have never seen it here in the US (at least not yet).
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/6 "2015-12-24T00:06:14Z")
> [@Torontonian](#):
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> like a tail attached to a dildo?
They make buttplugs with tails. Rule 34 and all.
Until they make non-sexual tails that are actually prehensile, I’m not interested.
> [@Pitchshifter](#):
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> Each new, hot generation has a statement they wanna call their own. Tattoos? Piercings? That’s for Moms and Dads. What you wanna do is spend your allowance on devil horn implant, Elephant Man head, designer tails, third leg, fourth leg - everyone a hermaphrodite!
Horn implants are a thing as well.
Speaking of Japan and sex, supposedly it was trendy for Yakuza to use backalley means to implant ball bearings into their penises. You can find a link by Googling but I’m not going to post it.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/7 "2015-12-24T09:44:33Z")
> [@Rune](#):
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> Well I don’t know. I don’t think so. Just a [garment](http://i.imgur.com/7zVy9op.jpg). But I expect they’d like if it was attached more as an integral part of the body.
It’s not only girls, guys too. [Sample](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=631745) [old](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=467907) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525790) talking about furries.
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### Author:  [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/8 "2015-12-24T13:35:49Z")
I think wigs (that are held on by magnets implanted into the skull) will be big. That way, you can change hairstyles 2-25 times/day!
Oh, and merkins will come back.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/9 "2015-12-24T14:02:30Z")
> [@botsgotme](#):
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> Oh, and merkins will come back.
Hey, you take that back! We 'Merkans ain’t gone nowhere! God bless tha US of A!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/10 "2015-12-24T20:30:40Z")
I’m guessing dynamic tattoos, i.e. ones that are animated.
That’s a thing, right?
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/11 "2015-12-24T20:41:21Z")
The problem is that once something goes mainstream, then it no longer distinguishes a person as a freak. Tattoos, for instance. What’s the point anymore?
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### Author:  [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/12 "2015-12-25T01:30:15Z")
> [@Rune](#):
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> Obviously there are things like tattoos and circumcision today. I was poking around on reddit and saw there is a forum dedicated to girls with artificial tails, and remember there is a Japanese product where girls can put on some big dog like ears which supposedly will respond to the mood of the wearer ([here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw)). So I was thinking what new high-tech and mainly cosmetic body-modifications will become mainstream over the next couple of decades? And more mainstream than the freaks who poke big holes in the cheeks or put horns in the skull.
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> Will it soon be fairly normal to see girls stroll down the street wagging their surgical implanted tails, raising their dog ears?
Japan had strange and weird stuff. It is mostly fun thing to dress up a and look it for some days. It not fashion thing like tattoos or counterculture like US hippies, punk or gutter punk.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/13 "2015-12-25T01:56:43Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Speaking of Japan and sex, supposedly it was trendy for Yakuza to use backalley means to implant ball bearings into their penises. You can find a link by Googling but I’m not going to post it.
For what purpose? Mutilating one’s genials is not something typically done just on a whim.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/14 "2015-12-25T03:00:43Z")
> [@Scumpup](#):
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> For what purpose? Mutilating one’s genials is not something typically done just on a whim.
For the same reason that certain toys have nubbins on them. I also heard that they do it in prison to give Yakuzaettes something to look forward to when they get out or if conjugal is a thing over there, but I don’t know if that’s urban legend.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/15 "2015-12-25T03:07:19Z")
I would not have thought that a Japanese gangster ( or any gangster) would be so concerned about pleasing his paracoita. Huh.
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### Author:  [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/16 "2015-12-25T03:13:47Z")
> [@Rune](#):
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> Obviously there are things like tattoos and circumcision today. I was poking around on reddit and saw there is a forum dedicated to girls with artificial tails, and remember there is a Japanese product where girls can put on some big dog like ears which supposedly will respond to the mood of the wearer ([here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06zvM2x_lw)). So I was thinking what new high-tech and mainly cosmetic body-modifications will become mainstream over the next couple of decades? And more mainstream than the freaks who poke big holes in the cheeks or put horns in the skull.
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> Will it soon be fairly normal to see girls stroll down the street wagging their surgical implanted tails, raising their dog ears?
According to the official Necomimi web site, base electronic cat-ear-system with white ears is $50. You can buy through Amazon. 😛
I would SO wear me some Necomimi cat ears. The fact that I’m 45 years old would not stop me. 😃
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/17 "2015-12-25T08:05:35Z")
I still find any piercings other than ear lobes (not including those ridiculous, poker chip size discs) to be unattractive and grotesque. Consarn it\*!\* :mad:
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2015, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/18 "2015-12-25T09:16:44Z")
Just tonight, my roommate and I were watching our house spider, and my roommate commented (apropos of nothing, really) :
**"Yeah, if humans had exoskeletons, we’d be getting ourselves scrimshawed."**
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/19 "2015-12-27T00:54:12Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#):
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> The problem is that once something goes mainstream, then it no longer distinguishes a person as a freak. Tattoos, for instance. What’s the point anymore?
Permanent adornment of your own skin could easily have so many other legit or at least understandable purposes. Think of permanent makeup (such as subtle eyeliner that never smudges) or something akin to jewelry such as a ring-type design on a finger. Think of trauma victims or other survivors who want to carry a motto or other personal reminder around with them all the time. Think of memorializing a dead beloved.
All could certainly be appealing to people who are otherwise completely uninterested in being perceived as rebellious.
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### Author:  [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-cosmetic-body-modifications-will-become-mainstream/741163/20 "2015-12-27T04:21:08Z")
I think eye color will be a big one; there’s a company doing trials for a laser that will transform brown eyes to blue; they’d make jillions off that, at least until seeing Asian people with blue eyes becomes passe.
Then, after that, arbitrary eye colors.
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