Going goth today is pretty much a matter of makeup and black clothes but the original goth (in the Victorian era) was an actual health risk as they obtained their pale skin and thinness from long term use of arsenic. Of course these were the same women who thought the women suffering from Tuberculosis were the ultimate example of beauty. Even after a medical journal explained the dangers of toxicophagi the women continued to consume arsenic as they believed if they started in small doses they could build immunity to the poison and the side effects were the sparkling eyes and pale skin they desired. Their motto must have been, "be beautiful or die trying".
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