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We all know that ear lobe piercing is the most common form of body modification worldwide, and depending on the country, piercings of the ear cartilage fall somewhere in the top three most prevalen...

Piercings around the nose and mouth are common even in Western culture, and all have been assigned their names accordingly; labret, monroe, medusa, septum… But what about piercings that are so uniq...

In the modern sense, many of us think of body modification as piercings and tattoos, but historically, true body mod has included so much more.  From foot binding in china, to corsetry in the UK, a...

Modern science tells us that tattooing and other forms of body modification have been around for thousands of years, but it’s a lot more fun to find actual proof that can be examined by human eyes....

According to historic record and compiled modern statistics, piercing of the nostril is the second most prevalent piercing practiced globally, falling short only to piercing of the ear lobe.  But d...

Septum piercing has recently been on a meteoric rise in popular Western culture, with the trend of smaller gauge septum piercings for women being fed largely through music culture and celebrity pie...

In the United States, the UK, Australia, and other Western countries, the stretching of lip piercings is something fairly new, but in other areas of the world, lip stretching has been practiced for...

Beginning many decades ago, body modification has been on a slow upward climb in terms of acceptance in Western culture.  But what about the forms of modification that were already in practice arou...