Body Piercing and Tattoos

I shocked in last weeks lecture to find out that there are so many ways of changing your body through piercing and tattoos. I think that it is acceptable to have piercings and tattoos as it is your own choice, however; it only becomes unacceptable to me when someone has too much piercings or tattoos. I also think it is wrong that people advertise body modification as something everyone must do to look good, as I feel everyone is perfect the way they are. I agree with views of religion and society when they argue that body modifacation is deviant as you should keep your body the way God made it and tattoos and piercings are associated with bad subcultures i.e. criminals.