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TECH

The Intergalactic 

Space Chronicle 

Genetic Body Modification Addicts

By Aidelyn Neuman

How much is too much? Apparently, when it comes to extra limbs for some there is no such thing as too much.

 

Altering one’s appearance has always been a favorite past time throughout the ages. Whether it be through make-up, plastic surgery, or the current fad: extra body parts.

 

Sure we could ask: why would one need an extra nose, or a permanent tail, or four extra arms? Wait the last one, as a mother, I’m actually considering.

But in the past, some people probably didn’t get why people dyed their hair. Whereas now every day you’re expected to have a different color every day. Really it’s exhausting to keep up, how many shades are there?

 

And mind you, I’ve seen a lot of those double noses recently and they’re growing on me. It’s sort of a big "f you" to the old nose standard.

 

I imagine that in some fields of work they could be very useful, like emotion-scent adapting perfume. If I’m sad, I want to smell right for the occasion and I prefer a person with two noses to sniff that out.

 

We asked one of the leading faces of Body Part Modification: Virtual Reality Star, Fanny Moody, why she decided to add a tail, two arms, and an extra eye on her forehead?

 

“I think I needed a change and I needed to break that physical mold I was born with in order to liberate my mind. It’s not just that I can see better now, I feel unbound by my human manifestation.”

 

Do you consider yourself to be less human now?

 

“In a sense yes, cause I clearly crossed a certain physical threshold. But on the other hand, in spirit, I am the most human you can be. What is more human than not accepting the limitations of the feasible reality.”

 

Well, put Fanny! Will you be adding any more limbs? When do you think it will be enough?

 

“I am thinking of more limbs. Maybe an extra leg or a horn, but my doctor is a bit concerned about my stability as far as walking. So we’re kind of just working through that right now.”

 

If the ladies and gents of the Victorian era could step into a machine that would accentuate some of their body parts, don’t you think they would?

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