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.

Want to be the coolest kid at your school?

Shhh! The secret is piercing your nuts!

Anyway, that’s your Monday morning back to school advice.

Comments

42 responses to “Want to be the coolest kid at your school?”

  1. TzanhZsu Avatar

    Ha,

    nice one!

  2. jOELTRON Avatar

    Lol. I remember my first genital piercing, a DIY 14g lorum.

    I was NOT considered the ‘coolest’ kid @ school, in fact I’m pretty god damn sure that I copped a lot of shit for it for months.

    Maybe Australian schools are different. O_o. Either way, mad pic. I love the facial expressions.

  3. lyv Avatar
    lyv

    my friend just told me someone at his school got his done last week. he whipped his out for all to see, too.

  4. derkaiser Avatar

    everyone at my school thinks i’m a bisexual perv with genital piercings..
    most people don’t even talk to me anymore since they found out..
    but well they’re not worth any minute of bad mood 😉

  5. deerheart Avatar
    deerheart

    *haha*
    maybe it was a contest…
    something to do with male maturity, girls and stuff 😉

  6. IAM: Psyx Avatar
    IAM: Psyx

    The guy on the right looks scarily like a friend of mine…

  7. squiggles Avatar

    That just made my day. Seriously.
    Thank you! 🙂

  8. slackary Avatar

    When I got my PA in college word spread so fast that people I didn’t even know were coming up to me at parties and asking to see it. Fun stuff!

  9. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    I DEFINITELY went to the wrong highschool.

    I think I got the right college though; I don’t know about the other faculties, but an awful lot of the pre-med students here have tattoos and piercings. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but body modification seems to have gone from relatively taboo to relatively mainstream in the blink of an eye. About time though. You’d think our bodies would have been one of the very first battlefields for personal freedom, not one of the very last.

  10. Sade Avatar
    Sade

    I think I’m just going to the wrong schools because in high school I got stared at for having 10g lobes, and now at college I’m stared at for having 00g lobes, and don’t let it be cold and my nips get hard-awkward.

  11. Mims Avatar

    Am I the only one thinking “Holding your penis like that has got to hurt?”
    I mean, he’s really pulling hard on it, isn’t he..?

  12. AliceTanzer Avatar
    AliceTanzer

    Well…If you look in the background they’re deffinatly playing beer-pong. I’m betting these are college age kids. Very drunk college age kids. 😀

  13. hehe Avatar
    hehe

    I like the “chain” of who’s looking at who. It reminds me of that one scene in Amelie. “there’s a baby looking at a dog looking at a chicken”

  14. secretdesiresx Avatar

    word spread pretty fast around my high school when i got my nipples done. i live in the south so it’s pretty unacceptable here still.

    hell, the pictures that i had posted on this site got taken and spread around school. my life was hell by the end of senior year..but i really didn’t care.

  15. violentjayne24 Avatar
    violentjayne24

    I guess im the only one happier about the guy smiling ang gesturing to his buddys balls than the ball percing itself… lol.. he just seems so damn happy to be that close to his friends sack .. its still cracking me up .. great pic !

  16. parkthatcar Avatar
    parkthatcar

    yay!

    summer sendoff @ kenyon college in gambier, ohio.

  17. blastphem0r Avatar
    blastphem0r

    @mims: i guess you’ve never pulled on one? :þ

  18. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Is that a matress?

  19. gillian gamine Avatar

    2- but how did they find out?=]
    i like the guy in the middle, his mouth pleases me.

  20. lippi Avatar
    lippi

    the guy gesturing to the piercing is so cute!

  21. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    That’s guys mouth is so big, it’s impressive.

  22. mung Avatar

    joeltron – how do you know it’s an aus school? where in aus??

  23. Sassie_L Avatar

    Joel meant that he went to an Australian school, and was talking about how schools in Australia wouldn’t see it that way. Being an Aussie myself I know exactly what he means. I definitely wasn’t seen as cool at my school for all the work I had, but then that was 15 years ago 😀

  24. Rachael Avatar
    Rachael

    Wow.
    I love the facial expressions.
    This picture made a very bad day, very happy.
    I love it.
    I wish people were like that with the mods I have.
    I need some smileing faces.
    All the scowls and confused faces get a little old after a while.
    But seriously I love their faces.
    Amazing.

  25. Axis Avatar
    Axis

    Pretty fuckin limp.

    Is he worried that it might be a bit too ‘small’ so he is trying to make it look bigger by tugging on it?

    This is obviously the latest in “acceptable rebellion” for college kids just surprised that BME is endorsing it.

  26. Campbell Avatar
    Campbell

    Rachael, I find that most of the people on BMEzine are smiley 🙂 Though maybe more people attempt Myspace scowls when they’re taking pictures of their lip rings or nostril piercings, maybe 🙂 Someone with full BME access should catalog smiles across mod types!

    And Axis, really… does it matter to you how small he is or not? Try being infected with happiness from the cheesy grins in evidence here.

  27. Steph-knee Avatar

    Hahaha I’m feeling the love in this photo. They’re so happy.

  28. mung Avatar

    i’m aussie too, and i never had any probs and that was round 15years ago too. i’m in bris tho, which isn’t (or at least, wasn’t) as yuppie as alot of the other cities (ie sydney and melbourne)!!

  29. katie Avatar
    katie

    Yeah I can see how that would have gone down at my high school:

    Pierced nut guy: “HEY GUYS! Check this out!”
    *pulls it out*
    Everyone else: “OH MY GOD THATS DISGUSTING/ WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT/ WHATS WRONG WITH YOU/ Can I touch it?”
    *WHAM* *Pierced nut guy on the floor, bleeding*
    Principal: “We’re going to have to ask you to leave the school….And not come back”

  30. apple Avatar
    apple

    Numbah 16: you go to Kenyon too? You KNOW it’s a small world when multiple Kenyonites read Modblog.

  31. anthony Avatar

    My first non ear piercing was a 10gauge scrotal I did.

  32. xjonathan Avatar

    Hahah this photo’s hella cute. If that were the case I would have been the coolest kid at school by far 😀

  33. Cedes Avatar
    Cedes

    I probably would have stayed in school if there were more mod’d boys dropping trou on campus. Sigh!

  34. Samantha. Avatar
    Samantha.

    I love how the people in the background are totally oblivious.

  35. hellonightmare Avatar

    uh I don’t go around advertising my genital piercings so people will think I’m cool.. that opens myself up to a lot of pervs asking to see it.

  36. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    and that’s one of the teachers……

  37. Ollie Avatar
    Ollie

    10 / 10. Happy days. Good effort.

  38. Anton Avatar
    Anton

    I did my own

    Get inn

    Only show it to people who ask

  39. Molly Avatar
    Molly

    Oh, Summer Sendoff at Kenyon College. What a party. Whippin’ it out to show off a piercing is not terribly unexpected given the amount of alcohol consumed by the majority of students.

    Shoutout to fellow Kenyonites #15 and #30 (#36, are you one too?).

  40. copied Avatar
    copied

    Emo kid on the right is thinking: MUST….RESIST…..URGE….TO…..TOUCH IT.

  41. indstry Avatar
    indstry

    that’s my first genital and my “secret piercing” at school too only like 5 kids know about it. life’s fun that way.

  42. Madi Avatar
    Madi

    See, that guy know the secret is really to cup the balls. 😉

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