Cultures around the world still honor ancient traditional practices of body modification, or the intentional and often irreversible alteration of the skin. For many practitioners, body modifications ...

This guy redefines the phrase “shooting off at the mouth.” A Mississippi body-modification “addict” is being dubbed a “human gun” after demonstrating how he can incredibly shoot pellets through a ...

Man has entire inner ear removed in controversial body modification procedure. A Swedish body modification artist performed a ...

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This man’s ears must be burning after photos of his controversial conch removal surgery went viral. Charles Bentley, a body modification enthusiast, reportedly traveled from Australia to Stockholm, ...

A body-modification addict claims that he’s “harassed” in the street after having both his nose and nipples removed in the name of body art. “People love hating anything different,” Odin, who goes by ...

In 2004, The State Press published an image of an exposed nipple with an industrial piercing on the cover of its October magazine. The cover story was titled “Sensual Steel,” but would be remembered ...

Many people aren’t sure what to make of Tiamat Legion Medusa, the self-described most body-modified transexual in the world, who has transitioned not only from male to female, but from human to ...

Heart-shaped nipples are a newly popular trend in body modification. This modification doesn’t make your actual nipples heart shaped, but instead impacts the slightly darker skin tissue around your ...

If you have been living under a popular culture rock, you may not have heard of the recent body modification fad known as the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). It involves taking fat from the stomach or back ...