By Anonymous · Feb. 25, 2000 · 0 comments
My blood-drinking/cutting fetish At A Glance Author Akasha Caduceus Contact RecallSin@aol.com To begin with, I have simply this to say: I have a blood fetish. To elaborate upon this, there's also the matter of cutting....and of being cut....which is what not only makes the blood-letting easier, but also much more fun! I remember a few years back when I came across the BME website and saw the scarification section. Curious, I checked out the cutting part, and, at the time, was revolted by it! I thought that the designs were nice and all, but the idea of letting someone cut ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 02, 1999 · 0 comments
late at night, and I'd had a very bad day. Maybe this start will cloud peoples perspectives as to my reasons for doing this, but please don't confuse this experience with any of my others. I admit now that I am also a confessed self injurer, cutting myself for emotional relief, but the brand was something else. I was sitting at my desk, playing with my knife and a lit candle. I found my self passing the knife blade through the flame, trying to melt off some wax on it from carving earlier. I had my music on in the ...
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By Anonymous · Aug. 15, 1999 · 0 comments
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By Anonymous · June 15, 1999 · 0 comments
ef = "/cgi-bin/vote/votec.cgi?/ritual/990615/ritutens.html"> 3 1/2 years ago i received my first non-ear piercing, my first step off a new life style. At the time it was for the simple fact that i thought that it was "kinda neat." Little did I know at the time that it was lead me into a world that I did not know to exist. I have mostly used my different body modifications as ways to mark different transitions in life (got my frenum after my divorce, got my brand as a way to celebrate one year from her, got my conches cut at 2 ...
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By Anonymous · May 15, 1999 · 0 comments
ef = "/cgi-bin/vote/votec.cgi?/culture/990515/reading.html"> "In the two hundred years since tattooing has been (re-) introduced to the West, the phenomenon has gone through cycles of acceptance and rejection as an art form" (Campbell, DAI). A few weeks ago I was sitting in on a professor's 'Disability Lit.' class. She utterred the phrase; "Body as text." The phrase, in this setting, referred directly to a disabled person and how a person's body could literally be read. Even though that particular phrase was a direct reference to a disabled body I started to think of other instances in which the body could be ...
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By Anonymous · May 15, 1999 · 0 comments
ef = "/cgi-bin/vote/votec.cgi?/ritual/990515/bedonail.html"> Hello. My name is Chris. Some of you readers may know me from such experiences as "Do you smell something burning or is it just me?" parts 1 and 2, "Double Whammy!", and "more Fun with Hot Metal". This is a true story, as well as an experience story, for anyone who is interested. I'm not too sure where you would categorize this on BME, but we'll leave that up to Shannon and friends. I digress. Ah Yes. The story Starts off a few weeks ago with my partner in crime, John Whitby(see Above Stories). John got ...
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By Anonymous · April 15, 1999 · 0 comments
ef = "/cgi-bin/vote/votec.cgi?/ritual/990415/hookpull.html"> On March 26, 1999 I had my first experience with having hooks put through my flesh. I was one of three participants in a three-way hook pull. While a hook pull isn't quite as extreme as a hook suspension, it was a very unique, intense, and personal experience (even though it took place in front of 1300 people). The event took place at the Big Bad Fetish Ball IV, in Cleveland, OH. The BBFB is an annual event open to the general public. One of the highlights of the event is a fetish/alternative clothing fashion show. The ...
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By Anonymous · March 01, 1999 · 0 comments
b>A Word From: Svend Jensen age21. (I`m the Dude With The Green Hair) Member of a performance art group called "SIDESHOW" and currently a trainee body piercer. The idea started with Modern Primitives. I had been sitting and browsing through some books in the piercing studio one day and immediately realized that that was what I wanted to do. That was about two and a half years ago and it stuck in my brain. One day, about four months ago, Alan, from GASS nightclub, (now THO The Harder Option) which gives Sideshow, the performance art group I work with regular ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 01, 1999 · 0 comments
NENT BODY MODIFICATION AMONG THE MAYA
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By Anonymous · Feb. 01, 1999 · 0 comments
found your page on the Hijra's of India... I found it generally good but for two things... First... "eunuch" is a bad translation of the term hijra... it is unfortunate that is is already an established translation. You are better than most in that you correctly identified the hijra as being the equivalent of transsexuals in western culture. Second... you must understand that every unwanted and dispised group gets labled as "child stealer". The Gypies in Europe were accused of stealing children and raising them as their own. Some uncritical authorities actually believed these unfounded accusations. The Jews in europe ...
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