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” ...

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 ...

TikTok Star Alluringskull shared before-and-after videos of her cosmetic tongue-splitting procedure. Alluringskull, 32, moved forward with the body modification — which split her tongue down the ...

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 ...

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An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the willingness and motivation to engage in body modification to attain an ideal body image from a cross-cultural perspective of Black women in the United ...