By Mike · July 16, 2004 · 0 comments
I've always wanted to have my bridge pierced. They look great on people. Unfortunately, I work in a white collar job. That means this piercing was out of the question. At some point, I realized that I was going to be away from work for almost a week while in Toronto for BMEFest. Even if I couldn't keep the piercing, I wanted to have it done for a while. This is the piercing I'd always wanted, and now I would have it. The only real issue I had was determining who the piercer would be. Since we were going to ...
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By Anonymous · March 10, 2004 · 0 comments
Despite my long running interest in body modifications, it was only recently that I really took an active role in getting new piercings. For the longest time, I'd never had a continuous income for paying for my piercings and my parents were far from supportive. But as I got a job, worked, and became more independent, I began to enforce that it was in fact my body and my choice and my parents, though not exactly supportive, lived with the changes I was making. That is, until I told them about my friend's septum piercing. I hadn't always been a ...
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By brian.johnson · Feb. 20, 2004 · 0 comments
I've always had it in mind that I would wear some kind of jewelry in my nipples. Having started getting tattoos and piercing comparatively late in life (I never had a tattoo or even my loves pierced until I was 27) I tend to be in no hurry for things. I decide I'd like to do something and wait on it and if it doesn't go away after a month or two, I go ahead with it. So began the journey to get my nipples pierced. It had been well over a year since I had anything done. My wife ...
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By Anonymous · Aug. 05, 2004 · 0 comments
Body modification has been an important part of my life for many years. Through tattoos and body piercings, I've come closer to realizing who I am. With each new mod I get, I feel more and more complete. I feel as if the shell that is known as my body is coming closer to reflecting my inner being. I used to dream of another form of body modification as a child, suspension. It was never exactly myself that I saw suspending, but rather a Native American brave facing his destiny. As I grew older though, it began to look more ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 16, 2004 · 0 comments
Well, I am here to tell you about my first time ever doing a flesh pull, which just so happened to be 2 weeks earlier than the time that I am writing this. My boyfriend and I decided to do it to celebrate our birthday, being that we were born but a week apart. I did this pull for several reasons. First of all, I am interested in suspending one day, but am not yet ready, and this was my personal way of building up some confidence. Also, I HATE birthdays, well mine anyway, and this was a way to ...
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By Anonymous · Dec. 16, 2004 · 0 comments
"Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?" - Susan Lipsett and Liz Nelson "Love is not what we become, but what we already are." - Stephen Levine "You can't describe the meaning of love. The answer lies within your heart" - L.P. I've put off writing this experience for quite a while now. It happened November 20th, 2004, but its taken me this long to sort through things and understand how I really feel about it. I am still at a loss for words, when I think about it I tremble and ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 14, 2004 · 0 comments
It all started when I had just moved out of a hick town, Wasaga Beach, to Toronto for school. I was taking a course for Music Business, which I later on regret and found a waste of time. In the mean time, my best friend had moved to Gravenhurst and met some interesting people. Through one of her friends, I was informed about the BME site. I looked at it quite often, just looking at all the pictures. This perked my interest in the bod. mods. The piercings that I had before were mostly in my ears, a nipple ring ...
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By Pathogen · Dec. 16, 2004 · 0 comments
I had been interested in the more ritualistic side of body modification for quite some time, mainly since having my ampallang done. Once I had fallen in love with body piercing I knew I was slowly working my way to an amp, so once I'd achieved that goal I knew I'd need something else to work up to. Originally I'd got it into my head that I wanted to perform a Sundance ritual, but for some reason this never came to fruition. A few years ago a very good friend of mine asked me if I'd be prepared to suspend ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 13, 2004 · 0 comments
With my business just taking off, as well as my addiction to piercings, I had to work to find more "hide-able" piercings. Before today, I had my lobes stretched to 0g, helix-helix industrial, standard tongue, and 2 already retired- naval and tongue web. My choices at this point were nipples or 'below the belt'- neither of which i wanted do to the inability to show them off tactfully- and septum, other ear piercings, and various surface piercings. Septum was avoided because I really love my nose the way it is, and other ear piercings were just... not 'new' to me. ...
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By Paindreamer · Dec. 16, 2004 · 0 comments
4 days in the country side of a small town in Sweden. Its the middle of june, We meet because we share something. Our bodies as main subject. Its modfest, and it was here that I found myself. Its friday and I wake up with more intensive feelings like never before. Today I will find out if I am what I want to be, strong in my mind to convince myself that I can levitate with only hooks in my flesh. Today its suspension time. The beginning of the day was like a blur, had little to drink the day ...
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