Extreme body modification can be prosecuted even with consent

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6695409/Tattooist-split-womans-tongue-cut-customers-ear-appears-court.html

Court of Appeal judges ruled that people who perform body modification can be prosecuted even if they get their client's written consent.

...the judges said it was not in the public interest that a person could wound another for no good reason.

'What the defendant undertook for reward in this case was a series of medical procedures for no medical reason.

The personal autonomy of his customers does not provide the appellant with a justification for removing body modification from the ambit of the law of assault.'

There was an interesting analysis of this case on BBC radio 4 news, about 17:25

I am wondering if this decision means doctors who perform mastectomies for no good reason, especially on minors under 18 could be successfully prosecuted?

I read a bit about this earlier, and think it was more that he had a licence as a tattooist and piercer, but no medical license or training. So should not have been performing surgical operations. I don't think it will apply to modifications carried out by medical professionals, even if it is to remove healthy body parts with no medical necessity.

There was a comment under that article along the lines of-so we cannot allow ‘wounding of others’, yet it is perfectly legal to prescribe prepubescent children with puberty blockers & cross sex hormones which will render them sterile-if we slap the trans label on them-double standards.

It had a few likes then The Times deleted it.....am so fed up with the truth being silenced.

I actually thought this story could have relevance for the "sex game gone wrong" defence in that it gives further examples in law that there are some things you can't consent to.

I was shouting at the radio why is this an offence and killing your girlfriend because "she asked for it" is not?

Scared the puppy [shame]