BME: Body Modification Ezine

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.

Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture

  • Jimmy James pulls a car with his taint

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    Shannon Larratt

    File this in either the “Fakir is rolling over in his grave” or the “Some people will do anything for attention” or the “Physical comedy is much funnier in the 21st century” categories. And don’t ask me what the wet spot on the pavement is — I don’t know and I don’t want to know. Allen writes,

    We are here at the Southwest Suscon hosted by Ascension. Emrys (iam:TylerDurden) and Jason (iam:jason) from ROP did the piercings — two six gauge hooks. Jimmy James (watch for his IAM page in a couple days) only pulled the car a few feet because he was tearing pretty bad. The hooks were migrating into each other… but he’s fine… he was seen riding a bike about twenty minutes later.

  • Bright Coloured Coverup

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    Shannon Larratt

    Sean’s coverup tattoo was done by Jeff Gogue in Grants Pass, Oregon; two koi in a yin-yang pattern with a “Love” kanji in the center.

  • Two is better than one

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    Shannon Larratt

  • Throat Cutting

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    Shannon Larratt

    iam:Viper

  • Mother’s Day Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    Earlier this year Stainedskin1982 had Rob Grube (Chaos Ephex in Lapeer, MI) help his mother give him a little frog tattoo for mother’s day, along with the requisite “MOM” text.

  • Pentax K1000

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    Shannon Larratt

    Truant (along with Heath Leffel at Electric Tattoo in Topeka, Kansas) is working on a Pentax-themed stomach tattoo.

  • Self Cutting in Russia

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    Shannon Larratt

    Swallow also has some unusual surface piercings on her belly…

  • Kafka Tattoo

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    “As Gregor Samsa awake one morning from a troubled dream, he found himself changed in his bed to some monstrous kind of vermin.”

  • Scrotal Bridge

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    Shannon Larratt

    I was going to make this a “guess what” but decided to just use the icon as a link to the picture instead. I quite like the way this DIY lorum has formed a “bridge” of tissue underwhich to mount both a cockring and scrotal ring as well.

  • “Only the best”

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    Shannon Larratt

    A while back I got this funny email from Jared —

    well, it starts off pretty normal… my judgment was a slight bit impaired one night so i asked my two buddies to give me a heart brand on my arm. it just basically went downhill from there. they got the great idea to just simply use a lighter and try to shape the skin. bad choice. what ended up happening is they held the flame on the lighter for about five or so minutes, then pressed it to my skin (which i didnt really notice at the time) and they held it for about a minute or two. when that was done the lighter was removed… with about half of my skin, leaving me with my third degree “heart”.