| 2008/03/26: |
John Joyce: Scarab Body Arts
An interview with John Joyce, a talented and highly professional piercing and scarification artist from Syracuse, NY.
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| 2008/03/25: |
Post Apocalypse: Jacki Randall Interview
Talking with lesbian-leather-bike-culture artist Jacki Randall about her views on art and tattooing.
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| 2008/03/19: |
Tattooing in Nepal: Mohan Gurung Interview
Chatting with Kathmandu's best known tattoo artist about his craft and doing it in Nepal.
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| 2008/03/13: |
Allen Falkner: Punished and Forgiven
Talking to Allen about his long careers in suspension and as the owner of Dallas, and his new work in tattoo removal at Fade Fast.
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| 2008/03/11: |
Beth and Douglas: DE-FINGERED
Talking to two people who each voluntarily amputated a finger in secret.
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| 2008/03/10: |
Semi-Voluntary Amputations
Discussing the grey-space where amputation is chosen to solve a medical issue that would otherwise not be treated with amputation.
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| 2008/03/06: |
Vincent Hocquet Tattoo Interview
Talking to another Belgian master of modern tribal and geometric tattooing about his art.
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| 2008/03/04: |
Anders, The Piercing Guy
Chatting with Anders who, after getting his first piercing at age thirty, quit his job, started an apprenticeship, and never looked back.
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| 2008/02/29: |
Johnny Thief Tattoo Interview
One of the most talented tattoo artists out there, who's managed to achieve massive mainstream success without compromising himself to the mainstream.
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| 2008/02/28: |
Jae: Interview with a Scratcher
Taking a break from talking to high-end artists and chatting with a beginning home tattoo artist instead.
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| 2008/02/26: |
Daniel DiMattia of Calypso Tattoo
An interview with one of the masters of neo-tribal tattooing about his art.
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| 2008/02/25: |
Handywork by Boff Konkerz
Talking to Boff about the process of doing hand-poked tattoos.
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| 2008/02/23: |
Evolution is a Beautiful Thing
Chatting with G.C. and Duff about life with a large lip plate.
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| 2008/02/22: |
DJ Minor Tattoo Interview
Zombies. Bright, realistic tattoo portraiture of an assortment of blood curdling yet charming characters.
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| 2008/02/21: |
Fabrizio Divari Tattoo Interview
Talking to an Italy-born and now Toronto-based tattoo artist about the meeting of fine art and tattoo art.
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| 2008/02/19: |
One Hand Jason
This BIID interview discusses the Jason's self-amputation of his right hand in order to correct the "birth defect" of being two-handed.
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| 2008/02/14: |
Paul Oneball
Talking to a man who used silicone injections as a part of genital reconstruction after cancer-related damage.
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| 2008/02/13: |
Pain For Troy
Chatting with one of BME's first CBT video producers about the border between pain and pleasure.
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| 2008/02/11: |
Toph: Transformational Sacrifice
Talking to Toph about his amazing stretchings including huge nostrils and a nearly two inch lip plates.
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| 2008/02/04: |
Impgrin: Inflations
A deeply personal interview about inflation play, and how love repaired the damage from mineral oil injection gone wrong.
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| 2008/01/31: |
Martin: Genital Evolution
Talking to a heavy genital sculpting enthusiast about his radical body modification.
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| 2008/01/13: |
Howie: LunaCobra
BME talks to this controversial heavy body modification practitioner and artist.
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| 2007/09/17: |
Habakuk: The Body Must Be Free
Chatting with a friend of mine whose interests include nudism and scrotal suspension.
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| 2007/09/12: |
On Pins and Needles: A Lifetime of Play Piercing
Talking to a play piercing enthusiast who spent thirty years exploring the fetish in private.
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| 2007/09/04: |
Getting into Shape
Talking to Leen about his active interest in toe amputation and his quest to become a LAK amputee.
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| 2007/08/29: |
Cao: Growing up kinky in Borneo
A suit-wearing professional explores genital modification.
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| 2007/08/04: |
Ashley Crawford: Post-Gender
A chat about Ash's unique cervical piercing moves into an indepth discussion of the post-gender community.
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| 2007/06/27: |
Alvar Saenz-Otero: Droid Master
Chatting about both being a heavily pierced scientist, and about his SPHERES mini-satellites development work.
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| 2007/06/06: |
So what's it like to have magnetic implants?
Day to day experiences of individuals who've had a magnetic vision accessory implanted.
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| 2007/03/21: |
Maggot Lover
A brief chat with one of BME's maggot play enthusiasts (ADULTS ONLY).
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| 2007/03/09: |
The Indestructible Man
Chatting with 'FK', an extreme body insertion enthusiast with an amped up immune system (ADULTS ONLY).
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| 2007/01/01: |
2006 Year End Awards
Wooo wooo! The level and volume of competition this year was INTENSE!
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| 2006/11/06: |
Microdermals: The Next Big Thing?
The latest evolution in single-point piercing, microdermals promises the advantages of an implant with the ease of a piercing.
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| 2006/10/28: |
Michelle, The Pass Around Girl
We talk to a woman covered with extremely explicit tattoos as a part of her sex addiction.
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| 2006/10/11: |
Who owns my body?
Why "practising medicine without a license" charges are an affront to basic human rights.
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| 2006/09/31: |
Johnny Brought His [Tattoo] Gun
Talking to a soldier currently working on the side as a tattoo artist in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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| 2006/04/01: |
April Fools? Two more months of magnetic implants
Things go bad and I need to have surgery to remove them!
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| 2006/03/13: |
The alleged piercing-related death of a teen in Canada
BME's press release in response to the apparent government statements that pierced kids deserve what's coming to them.
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| 2006/01/15: |
Magnetic Implants, A Six Month Retrospective
Getting magnetic vision, learning to love it, and discovering that it's not without its problems.
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| 2006/01/01: |
2005 Year End Awards
Find out who made the 2005 staff lists for BME!
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| 2005/10/14: |
Dermal Anchoring
BME talks to Ben from House of Color about a new procedure similar to pocketing and transdermal implants that he's been developing for single-point body jewelry.
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| 2005/07/03: |
BME: Banned in America
Recent 2257 regulations in America threaten BME staff with life in prison and force BME to relocate to Canada.
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| 2005/06/12: |
Dr. David Graham: Abuse of Power by Deceit, or by Ignorance?
Coverage of the Suffolk County NY legislation seeking to ban nostril, tongue, nipple, and genital piercing, as well as scarification and more.
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| 2005/06/10: |
The Entrapment and Imprisonment of Todd Bertrang
Todd Bertrang and his girlfriend Robyn have now been sentenced to five and two years in prison for crimes they did not commit.
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| 2005/04/17: |
Seriously, WTF? Start doing CORSET PIERCINGS properly
Time to rant. I'm sick and tired of seeing badly done corsets. There's no excuse for it.
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| 2005/04/01: |
Love at First Bite
An amputation love story, set by the Pacific Ocean on Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
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| 2005/02/20: |
Nasty, Nasty Clients!
Talking to piercers about their dirtiest, smelliest, angriest, craziest, and most perverse customers.
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| 2005/01/31: |
Do piercing guns suck? BME reviews the Studex System 75
While it offers huge improvements over older models and its competitors, this modern cartridge-based system still has a long way to go in our opinion.
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| 2005/01/12: |
If you want something done right, go to a professional
BME interviews five escorts about how their piercings and tattoos affect their career.
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| 2004/12/27: |
BME 2004 Year-End Awards
An article for recognizing and saying thank you to the top contributors and BME staff of 2004.
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| 2004/12/17: |
Dear Abby, You Still Suck
Why is Dear Abby telling husbands to abuse their wives when women over forty get their navels pierced?
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| 2004/12/14: |
Pierced Eyeglasses
With a little TSD-flavored help, James Sooy experiments with using a bridge piercing to hold his eyeglasses.
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| 2004/12/07: |
A brief history of BME and reflections on the first ten years
Wow... BME is ten years old already?
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| 2004/11/11: |
Be Careful. You Have Enemies.
How body modification laws become subverted and abused for the purpose of profit.
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| 2004/11/09: |
BME commentary on PA House Bill No. 615
Pennsylvania attempts to ban facial tattoos as part of its ineptly written and poorly thought out anti-mod laws.
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| 2004/11/01: |
BME goes to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coverage of the 2004 tattoo convention, and BME's first visit to South America.
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| 2004/10/22: |
This Article Is A Thought Crime: Why young people need body modification
Not only is it safe for minors to be pierced, it might even be a good idea!
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| 2004/10/15: |
Punch and Taper Surface Piercing
Getting back to our 'piercing nerd' roots, BME interviews the inventors of this new piercing technique.
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| 2004/10/10: |
Overdone: Why do people get star tattoos?
Conversations with people with star tattoos about what they mean to them.
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| 2004/10/08: |
Extreme Makeunder?
ABC's EXTREME MAKEOVER documents a "modification reversal" as part of changing someone from "freak" to "nice".
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| 2004/10/04: |
Everything you ever wanted to know about anal piercing but were afraid to ask
Shannon interviews a half dozen people with anal rings about their experiences with this unusual piercing.
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| 2004/09/27: |
Tattoo my head with anything anti-Bush!
Kerra Fowler puts her head on eBay for a good cause... starting bid $0.01!
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| 2004/09/22: |
Dear Abby, Fearmonger Much?
If nurses can't think clearly about tongue piercing, can they really think clearly about your health and safety?
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| 2004/08/28: |
Fighting For Freedom In Iraq: One Screaming Eagle At A Time
After Saddam's fall, tattoo studios are finally able to open.
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| 2004/08/13: |
Dinner With Stelarc
In part two of BME's coverage of TransVision 2004, we present a long video interview with STELARC.
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| 2004/08/12: |
TransVision 2004 Coverage
Part one of BME's coverage of the World Transhumanist Association's annual convention.
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| 2004/07/20: |
Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds
People get tattooed every day with the things that define their lives — and "nerds" and "geeks" are no different.
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| 2004/07/13: |
Montreal Tattoo Convention 2004 Report
Photos by Rachel Larratt
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| 2004/07/09: |
Debra Darvick advocates mutilating babies (PS. She's also a bigot)
Another journalist joins the ranks of the anti-piercing hatemongers.
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| 2004/07/07: |
BMEFEST 2004 Debriefing
Video from this year's event, and... do you want to help figure out what's up for BMEFEST 2005?
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| 2004/07/05: |
Shannon Larratt Q&A
Warning: you may find this column even more pretentious than most of what I write. Feel free to blame the interviewer.
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| 2004/06/26: |
Shooting the Messenger: Why it's important to let young people cut
Cutting is NOT a problem; it is only a SYMPTOM of a larger and hidden problem.
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| 2004/06/17: |
Proud to be tattooed? What's there to be proud of?
If you're planning on going to war, leaving your sword at home because it's too heavy is a very stupid thing to do.
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| 2004/06/01: |
JewelEye (sung to the tune of Goldfinger)
Rachel Larratt travels to the Netherlands to have a platinum star implanted into her eyeball.
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| 2004/05/19: |
Eyelid Piercing
What, you thought it was impossible? Haven't you learned by now that EVERYTHING is possible?
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| 2004/05/07: |
Go to prison, get a free tattoo?
Canada is spending $100,000 building five professional-quality tattoo studios... inside their prison system!
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| 2004/04/01: |
The Raelians: Building Better Humans
Rael finally explain's BME's role, and comes clean as to what the clones are for: RAW MATERIALS!
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| 2004/03/30: |
What can pierced people do for the mutants of the future?
What does a girl being expelled for her nostril have to do with post-pole shift mutants roaming the Earth?
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| 2004/03/25: |
Bill Heath: American Traitor
The US state of Georgia votes to ban genital piercing for women. BME responds.
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| 2004/03/12: |
COINTELPRO Tactics and the Elimination of the Tattoo Menace
Why you need to worry when the media treats you like an idiot.
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| 2004/03/04: |
If tattoos are cool, DIY tattoos are even cooler, right?
The media (as always) is guiding kids down troubled paths in their 'well meaning' attempts to stop tattooing.
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| 2004/02/26: |
The Gift of Magnetic Vision
Using implant technology to add fundamentally new senses -- is bodmod the gateway to the future?
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| 2004/02/24: |
Advice to Schools and Parents Regarding Body Piercing
To put it simply: banning piercings at school HURTS young people and does nothing to protect them.
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| 2004/02/01: |
Fish Piercing?
BME interviews the piercer of the labret-wearing goldfish.
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| 2004/01/20: |
The Wall of Shame
Part One: Presenting the ignorance of Dr. David Horobin and David Kupelian
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| 2004/01/10: |
The Arrest of Todd Bertrang
...on fabricated charges over an unjust law.
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| 2004/01/07: |
Pierced? Get out of America!
Erin Simovic tells those with piercings that they aren't 'playing the game'.
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| 2004/01/01: |
Top Contributors, 2003
Thank you to everyone who made BME possible in 2003, and a big thanks to these people!
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| 2003/12/10: |
Straightedge and Modified
How can you understand mind altering RITUAL when you believe mind altering DRUGS are wrong?
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| 2003/12/05: |
William Rafti: Piercing Visionary or Scumbag Con-Artist?
BME uncovers massive fraud by an author claiming to have written a piercing encyclopedia.
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| 2003/11/28: |
Clash: The is Omo Valley
BME visits Liam Sharp's show of photos he took while travelling in Ethiopia.
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| 2003/11/25: |
2003 APP EuroCon Report
...where we discover that almost no North American piercing/tattoo studios can guarantee sterility!
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| 2003/11/02: |
Does God hate your tattoo?
BME examines Christian scripture's commentary on different forms
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| 2003/10/17: |
What's in a name?
BME talks to three IAM members who recently changed their legal names to match their perceived identity.
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| 2003/10/07: |
A 48 hour waiting period for tattoos?
BME talks to the chairman of the health board in Mass that instituted this new regulation.
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| 2003/10/06: |
Twenty Kanjis
Does your kanji tattoo mean what you think it does?
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| 2003/09/28: |
Robert Dill and his Anti-American Mission
Repressive rules banning personal expression run contrary to the notion of a 'free country'.
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| 2003/09/22: |
Tattooed = Slutty?
Why is it that tattooed women are so much hotter than those without tattoos?
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| 2003/09/19: |
Fighting Unfair Employment Practices
Sometimes when you fight the system, you win!
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| 2003/09/10: |
An open letter to employers
How hiring those with piercings and tattoos can MAKE YOU MONEY!
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| 2003/09/04: |
Karen Romell is a Liar, a Sheep, and most of all, a Poor Excuse for a Journalist
Don't spread lies about us or you'll regret it.
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| 2003/08/16: |
Body Modification's Role in the Coming Human-Robot Apocalypse
I haven't gone crazy, honestly!
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| 2003/07/30: |
FIGHT THE POWER!
Rules against piercing for young people has nothing to do with safety. It's an attempt at SOCIAL CONTROL.
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| 2003/07/18: |
Emulating and Idolizing Indigenous Cultures is Stupid and Dangerous
Two words for you: BE YOURSELF.
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| 2003/07/17: |
BAN IT ALL!
Another 'study' has been released declaring body modification a danger to society: don't believe their lies.
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| 2003/07/08: |
The Benefits of Being Different
Trend followers may pay the bills, but ultimately it's the individualists that SEEK difference that define the future.
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| 2003/06/15: |
Regulation: Attacks from Within?
When piercers push through regulation, their high standards may ultimately work against the body modificaiton community.
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| 2003/06/08: |
Is getting a BME tattoo lame?
A look at some of the reasons people get 'group tattoos' and how it's different from idolotry.
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| 2003/05/09: |
Piercing guns are blasphemy!
If body modification is a spiritual act, will using a piercing gun put your eternal soul in peril?
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| 2003/05/01: |
Maybe we should judge books by their cover?
Body modification at its core is a form of primal communication. So what are you trying to say?
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| 2003/04/20: |
What the Modified can learn from Satan
Are the strategies of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan something that can be used to better the position of the body modification community?
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| 2003/04/10: |
A Modified Man in the Air Force
A disturbing interview with a man left crippled after being forced by the US military to undergo 'anti-mod' surgery on his tongue splitting.
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| 2003/04/01: |
Joshua: Transdimensionally Modified
'...angels dressed in the prejudices of the twentieth century; avatars of another plane, speaking to us from truths beyond normal human understanding.'
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| 2003/03/22: |
When does modification become mutilation?
'Every good artist paints what he is ... The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.' - Jackson Pollock
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| 2003/02/27: |
Yeah, Dude... BME vs. Steve O
The Lizardman interviews Steve-O (of Jackass fame) about his body modifications and performance art.
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| 2003/02/10: |
My doctor, My jailor
We don't expect that the mainstream will learn to judge books by something other than their covers any time soon, but we do ask them not to burn our books for their decorative covers!
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| 2003/02/02: |
High-tech implants: The future of body modification?
Will computers worn under the skin be the next wave of mods? I think not!
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| 2003/01/25: |
Joe Hatred Strikes Again
Read BME's response to a St. Catharines school choosing half way through the school year to expell all students with body piercings.
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| 2003/01/17: |
Should Todd Bertrang Go To Jail?
'The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.'
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| 2003/01/11: |
World Records (An alternate view)
Guest columnist Erik Sprague, better known as The Lizardman, gives another side to the world record debate.
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| 2003/01/08: |
Blair (BMEradio revisted)
Too young to remember BMEradio? Hearing impaired and can't listen to MP3 files? Never fear, we have a solution for you!
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| 2003/01/01: |
Is it a world record?
Remember, potentially life changing ritual events only have value when validated on trashy tabloid TV!
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| 2002/12/06: |
Why I won't see any more Adam Sandler movies
Adam Sandler's latest movie Eight Crazy Nights capitalizes on tormenting and torturing young men over body image issues. Even the 'moral' characters in the movie emphasize that teasing people over looks is not only funny, but ethically acceptable.
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| 2002/11/21: |
Should Freedom of Expression be a right?
'If God wanted you to have a tattoo, you would have been born with one. Here in South Carolina, we still believe in God' - South Carolina State Senator Jakie Knotts
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| 2002/11/13: |
Dangerous Mods, Hidden Risks
You've seen some amazing photos of mods in BME/extreme. But don't think it always turns out so well! Without self-education, all manner of horror may be unleashed.
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| 2002/11/03: |
Why BME supports Self Piercing
I grew up piercing myself. I had genital piercings and genital tattoos when I was sixteen. They were most certainly safe, and, more importantly, they had a positive impact on my life. I learned something about myself, and I walked away from the experiences a better person...
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| 2002/10/29: |
Body Modification as a Form of Class Consciousness and Class Warfare
No one likes to admit it, but there is a war for survival going on between those who choose to lead public modified lives, and those who believe this lifestyle is wrong...
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