“Need I say more?”
– p2bb, Athens Greece.
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“Just call me Frankenstein”
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Midian2000, one of the first people featured on ModBlog for his Lucio Fulci tattoo, has recently had this dermal anchor put in his neck (placed so it can be seen through his stretched lobe) by Didier at Enigma in San Diego, CA.
You may also know Midian2000 from the CD of IAM musicians we released on BME Records a few years back, or from the wildly successful So. Cal BME BBQ which is about to happen again this weekend for the sixth year — click here for more details. I’ve heard some of the stuff they have planned and it sounds like it’s going to be a really nice time.
You should go!
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I never wanted to be different, I just wanted to be me
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Thanks to Black Ink Pen for sharing her BME-slogan tattoo (I think this is my favorite of the various slogans, although “It happened when I was abducted by aliens” is near the top of the list too), appropriately customized to match her own story and personality. Tattoo by David at Desired Skin in Big Rapids, MI.
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Play piercing and bloodplay
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Thanks to piercer and model Natalie Adams (photo: Lighthouse Studios) from California for this great shot (she’s a new member if you’d like to go say hello).
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BME Newsfeed for Jul 31, 2006
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- 2006-07-31: SA: Love means body art, says smitten Sidwell [by deadly pale]
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BME Newsfeed for Jul 30, 2006
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- 2006-07-30: TX: A look at body modifcation terms [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: Iraq: Tattoos are quietly flourishing in Baghdad [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: UT: Parents share tips on teaching money skills [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: PA: Warped Tour survives perils of the road [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: IL: Tattoo enthusiasts defend their body art [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: BC: Business seeks ugly tattoos [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: TX: Denison schools start August 14 [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: FL: It’s never too late to live it up a bit [by rebekah]
- 2006-07-30: UK: Dr Sarah: Will removing tattoo hurt? [by rebekah]
- 2006-07-30: NC: Mark of Cain to be shown at Asheville Art Museum [by rebekah]
- 2006-07-30: New Zealand: Tattoo delays ‘put lives at risk’ [by deadly pale]
- 2006-07-30: India: Looking for Mr. Almodovar [by deadly pale]
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Stupid Censorship
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I think you’ve heard me complain/comment before about how since Google and everyone else is afraid of the government and/or the Church and/or personally has a problem with sexuality, it’s virtually impossible to get non-porn advertising for ModBlog. Now, while I think that it’s important to recognize that this type of financial censorship is still censorship, I’m more concerned about simply being permitted to document the activities that are recorded here and on BME in more detail. These activities are a huge part of modern and historical human behavior and I think it’s as important to understand and record them as the rest of the art and culture we produce as a species.
You may remember that quite a while back BME did an emergency move out of the United States (we were hosting out of California at the time, but are now back in Toronto where I live right now). If you’d like to know why, ask the recently sentenced folks who got three years in prison (down from over five) for shipping a nipple piercing video across state lines. This case also defined nipple piercing as “violence” and not protected under “free speech”. I can’t even begin to say how relieved I am that Canada has protection of “free expression” (including sexual expression), and that obscenity is defined by harm caused, not by moralism. So yeah, this picture goes out to all my friends at the FBI.
That said, with adult sites being “inspected” (if they’re searching your whole house, I think a better word would be “raided”) across the United States, I still am a little nervous that some of that censorship and oppression will flow North across the border. Well, at least now you know the real reason Christina Aguilera got rid of her nipple piercing, ha… Last thing she needs is to pay a $550,000 fine for letting anyone see it in public. Man, here in Toronto you can walk down the street topless with your nipple rings showing (male or female, thanks to equality laws), and there’s not a damn thing the cops can do about it… and CityTV can even broadcast it if they want to up their ratings!
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Blood and Needles
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I feel like I’ve been neglecting the “BMEgirls” department a little lately with all the tattoos I’ve been posting. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone over to the
darksidemainstream.Let me share with you two quick pictures. On the left is a photo that’s either a killer turn on or turn off for you depending on your kinks — thanks to Nyne for this DIY tongue splitting photo from Vancouver. And thanks to Britt Laird in Houston, TX for the 29 needle photo of Sarah on the right.
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Getting a jump start on life
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I’m going to write more about this later, but can I just say how angry it makes me that we censor people’s right to sexual expression? As sexual beings (our primary biological function is reproduction), the most pure form of expression we have is sexuality. If you want to really understand humans, you have to understand the way they express themselves sexually, and when that expression happens in exceptional ways, it is worth encouraging like all exceptional behavior, rather than working to stifle it.
And watching the way a culture’s sexuality evolves will tell you more about them as a people than most other factors that we take seriously in my opinion.
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Dachshunds Tattoo
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I like this tattoo Nicole got of her dogs by Brian at So. Cal Tattoo in San Pedro, CA.
