In many cases, the amount of pain endured during piercing or scarification also conveyed the wearer's status.

在许多情况下，穿刺或划痕过程所受的疼痛程度也传达了佩戴者的身份。

Scarification, as this practice is called, was once widespread in Australia, but as a ritual practice, it is now restricted mainly to a remote northeastern territory.

这种习俗被称为划痕，曾经在澳大利亚很普遍，但作为一种仪习俗，它现在主要局限于偏远的东北地区。

Among the growing body-art subculture, there are women who once again wear corsets with the aim of changing their body shape, and men who undergo scarification.

在日益增长的人体艺术亚文化，有些女性再次穿着紧身改变体型，有些男性则接受划伤。

Often, this is considered an unfortunate disfigurement, while other times, deliberate scarification has been used in both traditional and modern cultures, to mark a rite of passage or simply for aesthetic decoration.

这经常被认为是一个不幸的“毁容”，但有些伤疤是故意为之的，在传统和现代文化都有这种现象，有时是纪念一个仪，其它则是简单的装饰。