The rings are placed by Shawn O’Hare at The Pain Parlor in Oxnard, CA, but outside of the temporary body modification, I’m really struck by how thin and light-boned she is — I haven’t altered this picture in any way other than lighting.
So the Church of Body Modification has yet another member claiming that their facial piercing is protected by divine right and thus they should not be affected by dress code policies that ban piercings. Sara Yule got a job at a Catholic hospital and decided to her lip pierced. When told she would have to wear a retainer, she insisted that her religion did not permit the wearing of such retainers, and on religious grounds demanded that she be allowed to keep the ring.
SARA YULE (Photo: John D’Annibale / Times Union)
Sara says that she is “looking to make history” (religions always like ambitious and idealistic young heroines). The CoBM — big surprise here — hasn’t bothered replying to email on the subject so far. What I’d love to see is an explanation from anyone on how body modification in this context (a lip ring) is an overtly religious act, versus, say, simply an act of free expression (and the underlying spiritual freedom that all acts of free expression contain). As one of it’s founding members, I strongly feel that the actions CoBM members are not, by and large, “religious” in nature.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I agree with Sara that taking control of your body is an essential part of becoming an individual, and I think it’s terrible that there is a system in place that works to stop people from being individuals. However, part of being an individual is also accepting that sometimes doing the right thing isn’t easy, and that the more free you want to be, the more you have to rely on yourself, rather than expecting others to help you.
I think firing someone over body modification is bullshit. Worse than that though, I think that the fact that “freedom of expression” is not a fundamental and protected right in the United States (it is a right in many other nations), is also bullshit. Sadly though, you can’t use a bullshit religion to fight bullshit laws.
Male genital piercings by Holey13:
By Jason Romano at Biolab Piercing Studio in Houston, TX. He’s asked me to add that the heart is mis-shapen and unsymmetrical because it represents a battered heart.
It’s just temporary. Piercing on Freakboy by Jimi at Diabos Mutantes in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
I’ve posted a few of these microdermals and dermal anchors lately. For those of you not up on the technology, it’s sort of half way between transdermal implants and single point pocketing. The strong advantage over transdermal implants is their non-invasive nature — no secondary incisions, sutures, or special tools are needed. Here’s a gorgeous titanium and blue opal example, outside and inside the body by James Wisniewski at Body Electric in Hollywood, CA.
First of all, I just wanted to say again that since so many spam blogs and other bot-driven blogs are scraping this site, I wanted to strongly urge you to make sure it says modblog.bmezine.com in the URL box. If it doesn’t, you’re reading this on a site that I’d strongly urge you not to support.
In any case, I present Pigmeu by Kevin Foreman:
But then again, nose piercings always make ones eyes water. Thanks to Jay in Winnipeg for sending these.
Originally I was going to comment on how the new Cadbury’s Thins candy commercial (which is vaguely derogatory) has what are I think the largest stretched lobes that have been in a mainstream commercial (not including Art Aguirre from Church of Steel who was in the reality show Mad Mad House) recently, but then I noticed that she also looks disconcertingly like Xeni from boingboing (sorry for the crappy photos of my TV)…
Piercing by Bartas at Piekielna Furia Chaosu in Poland (if I read the email right). Mostly I just really, really like going to the beach. I have a lot of work to do this weekend, but I will definitely go again next week. Write me ([email protected]) if you want to tag along, I’m all for swimming with strangers. I’m thinking about going to Presquile… I haven’t been there in decades.
