People all around the whole go to extreme measures to be accepted by others. Often times these measures involve harmful things to the body. Someting that people do to be accepted and some people consider it beautiful is human branding
Human branding is a process is which someone marks there skin with a symbol or ornamental pattern. This mark is burned into the skin of the person. This burn is meant to leave a permanent scare. Human branding is performed with either cold or hot ironvere social pressure.
Gangs and other groups of people use branding as a initiation process. People will go to great extremes to be accepted in groups and to feel loved by others. A lot of times they feel that they must perform these harmful procedures to be accepted and wanted. Often times this human branding is seen when males bond. Fraternities will sometimes have human branding. Some people consider human branding as mutalating your body while others see it as body decoration and view it as beautiful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branding_persons
