It’s a thin line, but in this case it’s an 11mm partial subincision with the frenum tissue left intact (done in Moscow, Russia). Click to uncensor.
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Through the looking glass
Essie sends in these shots of her tattoos done by Needles, with the pictures being by Briscoe Savoy — I like his decision on how to shoot them using the magnifying light!
St. Galien, I say!
I recently picked up A Mind of Its Own by David M. Friedman, “a cultural history of the penis”. In a chapter on discussing early views of semen and masturbation, I ran across a fascinating story related to doctors attacking genitals in unpleasant various ways in order to curb “self-pollution” —
These doctors were certain they were saving their patients from themselves. Unrestrained, boys were likely to re-create the terrifying example of a French shepherd named Gabriel Galien, whose case was described in 1792 by the surgeon François Chopart. According to Chopart, Galien became a compulsive masturbator at age fifteen. Over time, however, normal stimulation was insufficient for climax, and Galien began to tickle his urethral canal with a long wooden splinter. His occupation allowed him the solitude and free time to perfect that methodology. But eventually Galien became inured to this new technique as well. So he used a knife to make a long slit on the underside of his penis, attempting to enlarge his urethral passage. This (at first) shallow incision, Chopart wrote,
which in any other man would have produced the sharpest pain, instead procured for [Galien] an agreeable sensation and complete ejaculation …. Finally, given all the effort of his passions, he managed, after a thousand instances, to slice his penis into two equal parts.
Emphasis added by me — I’m going to guess that 1792 is the first medically documented case of subincision and genital bisection in the West (and perhaps also a very early reference to sounding I suppose). Anyway, this headsplit below is on my old friend Hornet (check out his bonus gallery in BME/HARD for lots of great play pictures as well if you’re into it).
Unrelated point of trivia: Chopart’s technique for mid-foot ampuation is still occasionally in use today — you have to admit “Chopart” is a pretty awesome name for a dude that invented a kind of ampuation!
Ouch! Faceplant!
So Hyena crahsed her bike and did a faceplant onto her septum piercing. This photo was taken about a day after the accident… Four days later, after the scabs had lifted, she realized that the captive bead, which she’d thought was lost on the street, had actually embedded into her lip for the previous four days! She popped it out — no infection luckily, although her body was already healing around the bead — and she’s doing fine.
Three nipples, six bars
Jamie at Wildside Tattoo (Cedar Rapid, IA) did these six nipple piercings on a customer at his shop — I think that’s the best developed third nipple I’ve ever seen, pierced or not… And thanks to Jamie, this one’s pierced. Twice. You can click through for a closer look.
Palmistry
White-ink tattoo on the palm of Stewy‘s hand.
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Brendan (of Dragon’s Lair Tattooing, Brisbane) used the “sewing-machine” technique that greatly increases the chances of the ink holding.
A tattoo for his mother
“MOM” tattoos are a pretty classic motif in the tattoo world, but I quite like Jason‘s simple nipple tattoo by John at Ink Spot in Huntsville, Alabama — it’s a letter “L”, for his mother Lauri. I also like the idea of putting a mom tattoo on a nipple (or better yet, a belly button I suppose, if you want to get overly symbolic).
Cervical Piercing… Wow…
So I’m thinking to myself, ok, this eyeball tattooing stuff is the craziest stuff I’m going to post in a while. I wasn’t even going to post any more tonight, and then I see this piercing come across our desktops and I’m just blown away…
CERVICAL PIERCING?!?!
Definitely one of the wildest things I’ve seen quite in a while. All I can say right now is, wow, I’m really surprised to see this, and it takes a fair amount to surprise me! This was done, DIY, all by touch, by Ashley Crawford at Custom Art in Norwich, England, using a 2mm x 12mm (ie. 1/2″ 12ga) titanium curved barbell.
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I’m guessing that the body’s pretty resilient to damage to the cervix and this will probably heal fairly quickly — hopefully Ashley will keep us updated on how it goes. Cervix piercing… Just when you think everything that can be pierced has already been pierced!
Edit/Update #1: From the comments, our resident doctor writes, “Technically difficult but fairly low risk. Probably healed crazy fast too. The cervix is remarkably resilient and can take a lot of abuse. Being very mucosa, it’s a fast healer.”
Edit/Update #2: Click here to read more about it on Ashley’s LJ page (here’s her original entry).
Edit/Update #3: Click here for a long interview on the subject of these piercings as well as the post-gender experience! Highly recommended reading.
This… is… SPARTA!
Sorry about my absence. I’m back, it seems, and there’s plenty of good stuff scheduled starting tomorrow morning, but until then, please enjoy an evening of tattoo shots from Russia. Now let’s begin…
Oh my god I love this backpiece of some insane snow-man war! It’s only one of a big pile of great photos of great tattoos taken by my old friend tan0k (and a big thank you for helping me get things started again here) at this year’s St. Petersburg Tattoo Convention (click that to see more of BME’s coverage, or visit the official site). I’ll be posting some more of my favorites over the evening but check the gallery for more (note: it’s uploading now, so it might not be there until morning).
More great tattoos from St. Petersburg (1/7)
I liked this in-progress horror tattoo shot…
(Thanks again to tan0k for all the pictures from the St. Petersburg Tattoo Convention)