Imagine your forehead. If you need help, use a mirror. Then imagine an IV bag, the same sort they use to administer fluids to hospital patients, along with its attendant tube and needle. Now take the imaginary needle and insert it into your forehead, allowing the IV bag's fluid to drain into your skin, making it stretch and inflate, not unlike a rubber balloon. Sound like something that should be banned by the Geneva Conventions? Well, it's all the rage among Japan's body modification enthusiasts.

The popularity of so-called "saline inflation" is expanding among Japanese with a taste for the bizzare, as the appropriately-named Bizarre Magazine reports. Mod-crazy moon people congregate in places such as Tokyo's "Department H" to have thin needles inject saline solution (normally used to irrigate wounds and for hydration) into the skin, causing it to inflate and deform. Foreheads aren't the only frontier, either. Limbs, hands and boobs are all fair game. Boys looking to get their tanuki on can even have their scrota inflated, though regular applications may see the stretching become permanent. Other variants include using food coloring to change the appearance of the bulges and poking them to change their shape, as with the "bagelheads" above.

Ah, deviancy. There are times I wish that defending peoples' freedom to do what they will was not the right thing to do. I may never look at a doughnut in the same way again. Hit the gallery to see what I just saw.

[Bizarre Magazine via Japan Probe]