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Nonremovable adornment - body adornment that do not involve their removal and worn for identification or for decorative purposes. It became widespread in the BDSM-culture or as a stand alone decorations (eg. Commemoratives).

Nonremovable decoration dress by soldering, riveting, pressing of or very tight pulling. Removal of the decoration is only possible with mechanical destruction. The first mention of such jewelry found in ancient India, in which the children wore gold bracelets on the wrists and forced to walk with them until adulthood, when the hand grew and remove the bracelet was impossible. Also known bracelets and collars of glass, which are soldered directly on the wrists, ankles and neck. To prevent burns, the skin puts bark, thick cloth, and so on. N. These decorations were a talisman that could not be lost or stolen.

In ancient China, using the non-removable metal bondage rings worn on the feet and hands of children of slaves, unconsciously using the property of the plasticity of bone, got freaks to the court of the Emperor (grasshoppers, people with deformed limbs, knees facing backwards, and others.).

Since non-removable decorations are worn for a long time and can cause in some cases, changing the shape of the limbs, some cultural experts consider them to body modification.