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Cutting different parts of your body definitely gives different feelings, sensations, and results. (By results, I mean amount of blood, type of wound, healing time, etc).
I have only cut my arms a few rare times a long time ago --- but the feeling is certainly a lot 'better' (for me, personally) than elsewhere on my body. The one reason I have never properly cut my arms, is because I don't want people to see. Similarly, I cut on my stomach, sides and legs mostly all of which are completely different, IMO.
Also, arms would be easier to care for wounds with. You can't bandage the tops of your legs, or your stomach also.
Another thing to consider is, what might seem harder to cover, isn't essentially so. When I first self harmed I never considered scarring - only immediate wounds (as apposed to now, when I am aware the scar's'll be around for ever/a few years minimum so I take more care of location) and so I 'tested blades' out on my wrist purely because it was easily covered via my wristbands which suited my style and didn't look suspicious (at the time). In fact it was one of the easiest places to hide! Now the 'scars' are barley there, but they're also always exposed because I don't wear wrist bands anymore and if I did they'd look silly because of my different way of dressing.
I also cut parts of my body because of how I associate them with myself, for instance (dispite the fact my thighs are the fattest/largest/whateverest part of me) I cut my stomach when I feel fat or resent my body because I associate it with eating, and I'll cut my thighs to associate it with my relationships with people and thus being womanly. I guess that ties in with what was said about femininity earlier.
So yes, my main point is there is various reasons for cutting some parts of your body over others, and various reasons why I've cut certain parts of my body... even though I've never cut my arms.
On reflection - sometimes I wish I'd cut my arms not my legs, because it seems to everyone perfectly feasible to show scars on your arms because you can't wear long selves all year around, however it would seem (IMO) odd to show scars on your legs because it IS perfectly feasible to wear trousers or tights all year round - and it doesn't look weird, so to show scars on your legs makes it more of a choice to WANT to show them, instead of it being a necessity. So I'm limited in wardrobe but I feel like if the scars were on my arm, I'd just be like "who gives a ****" but as they're on my legs I'm hugely embarrassed.
Maybe it's just me.
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