Florida takes first steps to ban suspension

So I just saw on Allen‘s page that the APP so wowed the Florida Department of Health with their presentation that the conclusion of the meeting included the following ruling:

Sooooo…. If suspension is medicine in Florida (rather than art or religion, which are protected), does that mean it’s covered by your medical insurance if your therapist says a suspension might do you some good? And does that mean that when you go to medical school you get training in doing suspensions? Not fucking likely. Just another example of calling something medicine when it’s not in order to come up with an excuse for suppressing a subculture that doesn’t seem quite so bigotted to the plainskins.

I think if I was going to legally mandate anything regarding suspension, it would be the presence of someone who’s experienced as a rock climber and is a solid rigger and an experienced body piercer, not someone know-it-all-know-nothing-relevant who went to medical school and understands effectively nothing about the issues (let alone motivations) involved with suspension.

“Feelings Outside and Inside”

I’m getting bored of all these people posting “sicko” type comments when I post a heavy modification like genital splitting. I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand that the goal for the majority of people with body modification is pleasure of one sort or another, and that more pleasure is far from “sick”, even if you have to go through a little bit of a gory procedure to get it. These photos (click to uncensor) should help make it obvious.

Southern Cross Piercing

This piercing of the southern cross was done four weeks ago by Peter Sheringham at Piercing Urge X in Melbourne, Australia.

In Greek times you could see this constellation and it was known to both them and Hindu astronomers, but these days it can only be seen from the southern hemisphere, and thus exists in the flags of many countries and states like New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, and so on, and there is a stone image of it in the ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru.