A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Daaaaaaay-um

Now that’s intense.

Update: Since people are asking, the “why” answer is because the navel is very sensitive and many people greatly enjoy this type of navel play (BME/HARD has a lot of navel play pictures). The “how” answer is because it’s a skewer, not a beveled needle, so when it pierces tissue it spreads more than cutting, and pushes things out of the way before penetrating them. If you want to find more information on this in a fakir context, try a search for “Mirin Dajo”.

PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!!!

Comments

110 responses to “Daaaaaaay-um”

  1. vertigo Avatar
    vertigo

    Oo I can usually handle this blog but that makes me a bit squeamish. Very interesting.

  2. Manada Avatar
    Manada

    Mmmmm — I can’t help it, my brain just screams – “why?!” Though I suppose that’s my own question to deal with.

    No disrespect to the brave intended — but is this body modification?
    And by the same extension — can anyone who is penetrated then consider themselves modified?

  3. ives Avatar
    ives

    I’m no one to judge other people’s mods or rituals, but I was wondering what the medical implications of such a puncture might be? Like, are perforated intestines actually not as bad of a problem as I’m assuming they are?

  4. mechanicalnucleus Avatar
    mechanicalnucleus

    Sorry if this seems stupid, but that must be extremely dangerous…

    That skewer looks long enough to hit a few organs.

  5. inksation Avatar

    This must be a photoshoped

  6. Matt Volatile Avatar

    That’s… dumb.

  7. TristaniA Avatar

    Good for him, at least he enjoyed it.
    (I won’t ask “WTF?! WHY?!”, cause I’ll probably won’t get an answet. Oh weel.)

  8. TristaniA Avatar

    *answer.
    Oh, and I also agree with Matt 😛

  9. RustY Avatar

    Daaaaay-um!
    I want to meet this person, I want to understand how he does it. It looks so intense… it just looks.. wow…

    Whether it’s body mod or not – I think it is. In the same way that suspenion is.

  10. Warren Avatar

    All I have in my head is Eddie Izzard saying: “Yes that’s fine an dandy, but do you have a flag?”

  11. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    It’s not photoshopped. The reason you can do this is because the skewer isn’t totally sharp, so it moves tissue aside rather than cutting it.

  12. savemejebus Avatar
    savemejebus

    Wow, thats the first thing ive ever seen on here that made me feel like I was going to pass out… Good job man!

  13. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    And for the “why”, the navel is incredibly sensitive for many people — navel torture play is quite common, and a small percentage of people enjoy it immensely.

  14. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    At first glance, I thought this was a pregnant woman performing some sort of bizzare abortion.

  15. Rockerbaby Avatar

    That reminds me of a lyposuction procedure I saw on TV when I was really young. They stuck the sucking metal straw thing through her belly button too.

  16. yvo Avatar
    yvo

    mms://streams.omroep.nl/tv/vara/kopspijkers/bb.20031101.asf

    watch this video from about 20 to 22 minutes…
    it’s about a dutchman, who called himself mirin dajo, who lived around 1947 who couldn’t get hurt… he didn’t even bleed when the swords got pierced all the way through his body and his insides still were intact…

  17. Sitara Avatar
    Sitara

    It reminds me of the old wives tale about piercing your belly button and your stomach knotting around the bar – I guess the doctors would be right if they were all done like that heh.

  18. das Avatar

    Neat 😀
    I squicked a bit, but it’s still very awesome that it’s possible to do that. 😀

  19. nyne Avatar

    sdfhylkhflkhsadlkjsakjf.

    it’s been a long long looong time since anything i’ve seen on here has totally got me all squeamish. *clutches stomach and dies*

  20. jOELTRON Avatar

    Note the scar running down his stomach. One of my co-workers recently had to have some canerous material removed from his bowel and he has a VERY similar scar.

    Perhaps this person had to have some organs (re?)moved and thus was able to perform what we see in the picture.

    Very cool either way, I always wondered what that may feel like… it hurts me a lil just to poke inside of my navel. ^_^

  21. zusanna Avatar

    i was also thinking that or something similar – that like maybe there was a healed fistula there to begin with, from a surgery or something. THAT would be a modification 🙂

  22. severed Avatar

    guh.
    i hate just putting a q-tip in there to clean it.

  23. Lucas Fury Avatar

    wow. haha, i have a friend who might consider this his greatest fear, he hates even getting poked in it.

  24. Lucas Fury Avatar

    lucas fury dkc: dude are you around a computer?
    xnicholasDEMPSEY: Yeah…I’m at the shop
    lucas fury dkc: get on
    xnicholasDEMPSEY: Kk
    lucas fury dkc: https://www.bme.com/news/wp-content/uploads/200610102004-pix1.jpg
    xnicholasDEMPSEY: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    xnicholasDEMPSEY: YOU BASTARD

    ..see? haha

  25. tattoodfreak206 Avatar

    I’m sorry, but if you ask me, thats really rather fucked…!!!

  26. Jessica Avatar

    “navel torture play is quite common. ”

    O rly?

  27. ghoul_poon Avatar

    Hahaha Lucas
    And like someone else said, not many things make me squirm but this sure did..

  28. obsidian_wings Avatar
    obsidian_wings

    Manada, i would consider this more ritual, a bit like suspension or cheek skewering, not exactly modification but it all kind of ties in together.

    That being said OOOW
    I would really like to know how they did that without hurting any organs. Thats pretty amazing really. Looks pretty cool but I would not do it myself, i can barely clean my navel without squicking!

  29. Pwnie Avatar
    Pwnie

    It is possible that he has had some or all of his large intestine removed, as in IBS.

    I can’t help but notice the creasing under his pecs, however. It seems like he may be distending his stomach or somesuch? I know I’ve seen people do very strange things with their abdomens.

  30. JohnL Avatar

    WOW! I’ve got to think about this for a while. I wonder what he could of hit and how to not damage it.

  31. Rachel Avatar
    Rachel

    not very many things make me squeemish- this doesn’t either. mad props to this guy, that’s extremely impressive, definitly made me do a double take.

  32. StillHereSXE Avatar
    StillHereSXE

    I’d do it if I could.

    Good for him.

  33. teresina Avatar
    teresina

    that rules.

  34. leebee Avatar
    leebee

    let me revert back to my childhood for a second: gagagagagagagagagagagaga
    :S
    that’s about all i could say when i saw that picture, oddly enough.
    it’s certainly strange that more people get “sickened” out by something that involves no blood or gore.
    but then again, this is bmezine: anything is possible 😉

  35. Sammi Avatar
    Sammi

    I was more impressed by his massive gut.

  36. ted Avatar
    ted

    thats pretty intense. i hope he knows anatomy well

  37. Sugar Avatar
    Sugar

    I’m just curious how one avoids peritonitis (from punctured intestines) when performing such a procedure? Interesting!

  38. moddoctor Avatar

    Sickened nothing. Let’s be serious about this. If he doesn’t pierce an organ he’s at risk of peritonitis, a potentially fatal infeciton. Penetrating the abdomen is a “big deal” and even doing so in a surgical setting requires serious considerations of sterility and the like. Further considering the underlying structures is important here. The navel is often above the level of the bifurcation of the abdomal aorta which means that back there somewhere is the largest vessel in the body which if penetrated would result in a pretty rapid death from internal bleeding. Relatively speaking, any of these complications is uncool.

    That said, dude. Enjoy your thing, I just have serious reservations coming from the medical side.

  39. Meegs Avatar
    Meegs

    wouldn’t the fact that he’s a big dude play into it also? granted, i don’t know much about anatomy, but it looks like he’s got plenty of squish to skewer before he actually gets to anything important. skinny dude like me might not be so successful…

  40. VeganZombie Avatar

    ::gibbers incoherently::

  41. milquetoast Avatar
    milquetoast

    Oh man!

  42. jael Avatar

    you should probably lay down to try such a thing, eh? would it make a difference?

    that’s great.

  43. ubbaken Avatar

    Nice.

    I’m betting the person has Crohn’s and has had small bowel removal with some fistula development as a result which would at least facilitate such a feat.

    Buuut, looks fairly well built for a Crohn’s person…maybe something else…

    I can imagine that feeling pretty interesting in a good way though, all possible complications aside.

  44. Nyarlathotep Avatar
    Nyarlathotep

    So, let me see if I’ve got this down; the skewer is about seven inches long, give or take, and it’s penetrating about five, maybe six inches into his abdomen. IIRC, there is an impermeable membrane between the abdominal muscles and the intestines. Does the skewer actually piece through this membrane?
    And if the skewer isn’t really sharp, how does he get it to penetrate the skin and muscle in the first place? I would think that would take a lot of force, and if you slip when forcing something like that, it’s, Hello!, Perforated intestine!

  45. osiri Avatar
    osiri

    how funny is it that i spent more time looking at the scar on his stomach rather than the skewer in his navel? guess it’s because i have a very similar scar, from back in the days when they didn’t do scope surgery to rip out your gall bladder.

    made me shiver a bit too, but hey, to each their own. i hope he at least enjoys it.

  46. Ausmoz Avatar

    I agree with moddoctor (#37)

  47. Halo Miles Avatar
    Halo Miles

    WOW. Just…wow! That’s amazing, the fellow who did that must be very brave. I wouldn’t be able to do it.

  48. kelly Avatar

    I don’t know what exactly what, or how thick whatever barrier between the bellybutton and organs are (I wonder how hard he had to push)…although I do remember reading in Modern Primitives a story of how someone died getting the inside of their bellybutton tattooed the tradition Samoan way, guts on the outside and everything…does anyone know what I’m talking about? Random, but it this made me think of that. Also, I can only imagine the putrid smell emanating from that bellybutton during the healing process, EW!

  49. Ev Avatar

    Finally something here made my stomache turn! 😉 I personally can’t stand it when someone put’s a finger in there, so let alone this..!

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