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.
  • Pubic Corset Piercing

    Following up on the pubic corset piercing I posted about a year ago, here’s a 10-point version of it. Continue reading for the uncropped picture — this one is courtesy of JD at Love and Hate Tattoo in Phoenix, Arizona (photo by John).


  • Anatomical Tattoo

    I like Cory‘s new human anatomy tattoo (“I have another penis on my arm”, he claims), by Anji Marth at HPP Ink in Eugene, Oregon.


  • Clit Tattoo

    Kobe in Japan sent in this photo of his partner’s continuing genital tattooing work. As you can see they’ve not only been doing pubic/outer labia tattoos, but also some clit tattooing (yowch!), and work on the hood and inside inner labia as well. Click it for the uncensored photo.


  • Charles Manson Tattoo

    So to “celebrate” the new Charles Manson album being released free, here’s a recent HELTER SKELTER tattoo by Joey Saindon at Mantra Tattoos in Frederickton, New Brunswick… I’m going to go watch Survivor now, but I have some great stuff to post in the morning.


  • Bike Pull

    I would so fall off my bike if I attempted what Des.iree from Valencia is doing with Neek and Lewis…!


  • Something stretched, of course…

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  • But will she regret it when she’s 90?

    Going to the opposite end of the age scale, James Raimar from from Holey Body in Saginaw, Michigan did a pair of 18ga lobes on a client he describes as “80 and fucking rad!!!” I hope I’ve still got spunk in me when I’m eighty! See also: Matching Hearts with Granny, A Tattoo from Granny, Granny’s Navel, and 100th Birthday Present.


  • Being three is an OK excuse for being a scratcher!

    Continuing in the trend of many very young tattoo artists, let me introduce you to Xavier, Aaron Prosser‘s three year old son doing his very first tattoo on his dad at Whitsunday Tattooing in Airlie Beach, Australia. I know, as always there will be a variety of naysayers about this, but I think it’s charming, and something that they’ll both value for life.


  • Nudey Mister Rafa

    Honestly Rafa, I know you get a little excited when you’re suspending but there’s really no need for this sort of behaviour*..

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    *Not that I’m one to talk – A few years ago the police knocked at our place in Norwich, England, because the next door neighbour’s young daughter had been watching me suspend (the inaugural suspension on the Body Evolution tower we built) in my birthday suit, suffice to say she burst into tears and ran to her mother, who called the cops. They were very good about it though and suggested that next time we put up higher screens to block the view.

    I hope I didn’t scar her too badly.


  • Lovecraft-Escher-Tolkien Combo Tattoo

    Anna writes with some pictures of her labret in which she wears a handmade talon. She drew up the basic template and then it was molded by Antro del Drago and mounted on the labret stud.

    She’s also got a great back tattoo (seen below, which you can click on to zoom in for more detail), based on Escher’s 3D work, and a Lovecraftian creature based especially on the story “Hunter of the Dark” in which an entity is released by a non-euclidean solid. The tattoo was designed by a friend and then tattooed by Giancarlo Capra over three sessions. Slight changes were made to accommodate her anatomy and to give a bit more symmetry, and the Quenya word “Mother” was added as well (“thus making this the Escher-Lovecraft-Tolkien backpiece of utter nerdom.”)

    If you’re wondering why, Anna explains,

    “Whenever the argument of tattoos popped up in the conversation, I always told my mother I would get a sailor tattoo with ‘mum’ on it sooner or later as a tribute to her patience. Despite my love for pirates and octopi, I hate the whole anchors & hearts traditional style tattoos so it was always said in joke.

    “Since I left home the ‘mother’ idea begun to sound less and less stupid… Distance and time have brought us closer than when we shared the same roof, to the point that rather than ‘harrumping’ and raising her eyes, she was so supportive with the whole tattoo thing that she offered to pay a whole session as a birthday/Christmas present… and it occurred to me that the giant geometrical egg-shape giving birth to inane creatures I was in the process of getting was a definitely better way of paying tribute to the one who brough me to life, so I surprised her by presenting a whole back tattoo dedicated to her for her birthday, a couple of months later!”