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Eh?
Edit: got it, sorry, I’m a little slow on the uptake.
[quote=“Buttercup”]Eh?
Edit: got it, sorry, I’m a little slow on the uptake.[/quote]
You’re not alone… 
Unless I’m mistaken, I think he’s talking about people who literally cut themselves:
[quote][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm]A common form of self-injury involves making shallow cuts to the skin of the arms or legs, and this is casually referred to as “cutting”; a person who routinely does this may be colloquially referred to as “a cutter”. Localized multiple cuts, especially those similar in appearance, are sometimes characteristic of cutting, but are not reliable indicators of self-harm. Less frequently, this behaviour may involve cutting other parts of the body, including the breasts and sexual organs. Other examples include:
Punching, hitting and scratching
Self-biting: hands, limbs, tongue, lip, arms
Picking: wounds, ulceration, sutures or blemishes
Burning: cigarette burns, self-incendiarism
Insertion damage: wire, pins, nails, pens etc.
Ingestion damage: swallowing corrosive chemicals, batteries, pins etc. [6]
Some people also report self-poisoning as a form of repetitive self-harm with no suicidal intent. [4]
A popular misconception of self-harm is that it is an attention seeking behavior. In truth, many people who self-harm are very self-conscious of their wounds and scars and go to great lengths to conceal their behavior from others. They may offer alternative explanations for their injuries or conceal their scars with clothing. [4] [7]
In the strictest terms, self-harm is a general term for self-damaging activities (which could include alcohol abuse and bulimia), whereas self-injury refers more specifically to the practice of cutting, bruising, self poisoning, over-dosing (without suicidal intent), burning or otherwise directly injuring the body. [8] Many people, including health-care workers, define self-harm based around the act of damaging one’s own body. It may be more accurate to define self-harm based around the intent, and the emotional distress that the person wishes to deal with. An example of this form of definition can be seen in those provided by the support group LifeSIGNS [1].
Neither the DSM-IV-TV or the ICD-10 provide diagnostic criteria for self-harm and it is often seen as only a symptom of an underlying disorder [9] though many people who self-harm would like this to be addressed[/url].[/quote]
And self-infliction of injuries has what to do with dating?
They make dating a little more interesting, albeit at times nerve wracking?
I think he wants a mohel.
Mazel Tov! It’s a boy!
The most experienced mohel in the West welcomes you.
OVER 10,000 15,000 BRIS CEREMONIES PERFORMED
From that smiling slasher’s website:
I have been a practicing mohel for over twenty years and have performed over 10,000 circumcisions, including my own three sons, who have thank G-d no complaints.
The method I employ in performing the circumcision is swift and causes minimal disturbance to the infant. My instruments are autoclaved sterile and thank G-d I’ve never had an infection caused by this procedure.
Yes indeed, thanks be to g-d, because you certainly put these kiddies in harm’s way.
Isn’t it funny the way we are mortified at North Africans lopping off clits but this fucker can gleefully go online boasting of his succesful mutilation of over 15,000 little boys and in fact hawk his “skills” in an attempt to mutilate many more. My but that region throws up some delightful cultural traits.
HG
ln my personal experience… a shitload
I cut like mad when i was a teen. Lasted about 5 years…never suicidal…just liked putting a bandaid on afterwards.
Then I started punching my head…but then moved to Taiwan, and that was punishment enough:) hehehe
Sorry to hear that battery9. I hope you’re happier these days. Seriously. 
I ate at an extremely popular eatery that people have raved about on this forum and noticed that the Taiwanese girl serving us had dozens of scars on her arm where she had obviously cut herself due to emotional distress. I found that very sad. . . and pathetic. I went through a very troubled late adolescent phase, with lots of drinking till I puked, passed out, blacked out, got arrested, got in fights and lots of other idiotic things, so I know what it’s like to act like an idiot when one is struggling with growing up. I’ve done plenty of stuff that I look back on and shake my head in disbelief that I was such a fool.
But I have trouble fathoming why anyone would choose to intentionally cut oneself repeatedly – to show the stupid world, or show your stupid boy/girlfriend, or show your stupid parents, or whatever the absurd motivation. It just seems so incredibly stupid and childish . . . and pathetic.
I guess it depends on whether you want the world to see it or not. I hid mine…it was more like a game I played with myself. Crazy to think but it made me bond with myself a lot more. Many people cut in Taiwan, usually on their arms where everyone can see. It’s like the in thing to do when you are a teen. In the US they fight like mad at school, here they cut.
There was a girl in my dorm who used to cut herself, then when you mentioned the scars or cuts she’d cover it up and pretend to want to hide it. That was damn irritating.
I remember a bunch of rugby players back home branding themselves the way the guys did in The Beach.(take a knife and heat it up, then burn 3 lines into their upper arms) They thought they were the coolest people alive, but shook their heads at this waitress that cut herself.
Some people see tattoos as a disgusting way of self-inflicted pain. Grossness is in the eye of the beholder I guess!
I don’t care much for pain. Never did.
I know the one you’re talking about. I did a double take when I saw those scars. I’m surprised they don’t make her cover them up.
[quote]Cut it up…
Cut it up…
Who’s on the seventh floor
Brewing alternatives?
What’s in the bottom drawer
Waiting for things to give?
Spare us the cutter.
Spare us the cutter.
Couldn’t cut the
Mustard.
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching.
Say we can, say we will,
Not just another drop in the ocean.
Come to the free for all
With celo-tape and knives.
Some of us 6 feet tall,
We will escape our lies.
Spare us the cutter.
Spare us the cutter.
C-couldn’t cut the
M-m-mustard.
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching.
Say we can, say we will,
Not just another drop in the ocean.
Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the worthy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching.
Say we can, say we will,
Not just another drop in the ocean.
Watch the fingers close
When the hands are cold.
Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the worthy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?[/quote]
I WAS THINKING THAT TOO! JUST THEN!
Eek! Is sandman in my head? No! NO! The voices!
YAarrrraagbahhjgh!
There’s someone very near and dear to me who was a cutter last year.
There are ladder rungs from her wrist up to her mid forearm on both arms. Why anyone chooses to injure themselves so visibly and impossible to heal, I can’t understand.
I analyzed it that she was doing it for attention and WANTED her scars to be seen so people could worry and talk about her. In my eyes, it’s a self esteem issue. I know this person extremely well. If she were a teen, maybe she would have been dumb enough to think the wounds would heal over time. But she’s in her twenties and she KNOWS they will always be visible. And in her current line of work as a make-up artist, her clients can see these scars.
When I first saw her scars, I was so mad I promised to never let someone so stupid, so dumbass, so mentally and emotionally unstable, such an attention whore to work on me. But that was anger talking because this person is so close to me.
If you need any more info, you know how to reach me, the_chief.
Reminds me a lot of my friend Ulla…she hardly has any unscarred flesh left on her arms…I drew this pic for her.
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]
Isn’t it funny the way we are mortified at North Africans lopping off clits but this fucker can gleefully go online boasting of his successful mutilation of over 15,000 little boys and in fact hawk his “skills” in an attempt to mutilate many more. My but that region throws up some delightful cultural traits.
HG[/quote]
Umm, how is it mutilation? Perhaps not as God intended it to be, but at least you still have the sensation. AFAIK.
Drop 'em, love, we’re just going to take a bit of skin with this here razor . . . a trim and tidy up, of sorts. The idea’s all god’s, he left us a message in this book.
That’s a fantastic picture battery9.
HG
I’ll just say it with smilies:
:ohreally: :ohreally: :saywhat: 
Voor ek totaal my moer strip.
Maybe sometimes the simplicity of the pain OUTSIDE is a relief compared to the insolubility of the pain INSIDE…
Those who who know, know…
Those who don’t can’t be expected to.
I’m not looking for answers, I have no questions.
Even so, those who have chosen to share the contents of their hearts with me on this matter, well…
No matter how much I loved yiz before, you have achieved an even greater state of grace…you are angels.