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Sub-Categories in Body Modification

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Tattoos@ (453)

Web Sites in Category Body Modification

All About Branding - Details of multi-strike brand, new electro-cautery techniques, cupping, and do-it-yourself. Also features aftercare information.

Beauty Marks - Article by Gemma Tarlach asking if body modification is trend or cultural phemonenon. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinal]

Bloodbitch - Clinical torture, body modification, needle art and bondage.

Body Piercing in the West - An academic-style research paper on the sociologial bases for recent interest in body modification. Contains references. By Susan Holtham.

Body Piercing: Reclamation, Enhancement, and Self-Expression - Essay by Sander Thomas expaining his view on some of the meanings and reasons for certain body adornments.

Doctor Armando Favazza and Essie on Body Modification - Chat transcript related to the tv report of same date. [ABCNEWS.com]

Flesh Chronicles Media - Trading cards for body modification enthusiasts. Includes tattoo and piercing artists and collectors as well as information on preservation of cards.

Flesh Chronicles Media, LLC - Trading cards and other items for those involved in the community and industry.

Free homepages for BodModders - BME/World provides free home pages and e-mail to people with body modification interests. This page also provides a list of those personal home pages.

Ihung.org - Reference site pertaining to body rituals such as flesh pulls and suspensions.

Life Suspended - Private ritual and public performance flesh hook suspension group based out of Phoenix, AZ.

ModCon - Information on the annual conference on body modification and images from past events.

Pagan Fashion's New Frontier: Facial Tatoos - Article by A.Clay Thompson concerning a change in societal views of tattoos. [Pacific News]

Personal Rituals - From the Body Modification E-zine - individuals share their experiences of their chosen modification and the internal processes leading up to the event.

Tattoos and The Bible - A recovering addict tells his story about his first tattoo and the process of reconciling that decision with The Bible.

The Lizardman - Erik Sprague is a sideshow artist who shares his experiences and philosophies behind his body modifications. Features an events list as well as contact and booking information.

The Resurgence of Body Ornamentation and Augmentation - A research paper by Mecca Shakoor, a student at U.C. Berkeley. Outlines the history and relates it to two movements: Punk and Urban Primitive.

The Wasp Waist - Discusses the effects of using corsets to change the shape of the body.

Related Categories:

Arts > Bodyart > Bodypainting

Related Newsgroups:

rec.arts.bodyart – Google

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