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 ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

The cat got her tongue — and everything else. Thought Toco the human collie was intense? An Italian woman has received a whopping 20 body modifications so she can realize her dream of “transitioning” ...

There’s a snake in my arm. An Uruguayan body modification addict dubbed a “real-life demon” has divided social media after dropping nearly $6,500 to get “Satanic”-looking serpent implants in both arms ...

Bodies of power: new body art technologies -- Subversive bodies, invented selves: theorizing body politics -- Reclaiming the female body: women body modifiers and feminist debates -- Visibly queer: ...

Love it or hate it, modern medical science does now allow people to express themselves through their own body like never before. As with almost anything else humans set their minds to, some folks ...