Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Caitlin Cartwright says branding "is absolutely safe as long as it is with an experienced, professional artist." A Swedish body modification artist performed a “conch removal” procedure. A famous body ...

People are surprised by Pete Davidson's latest body modification. (Photo: Getty Images) "He has a few tattoos," Kardashian said referring to a few symbols and sayings ...

Marcelo "B-boy" De Souza Ribeiro has had his left hand surgically almost cut in half. The Brazilian told Insider the three procedures were "smooth, quick, and not painful." The procedures lasted one ...

The youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner dynasty has provided unprecedented transparency about her decade-long relationship with cosmetic enhancement procedures, revealing intimate details about ...

Setting a Guinness World Record wasn't something Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina set out to do when she first began her body transformation. "I chuckle a little bit because I say I got two Guinness World ...

On July 16, 2021, a roughly 60-second video was posted on social media featuring a São Paulo-based tattoo artist who said people often believed his ability to replicate shadow and light in ...

Some years ago, I was asked to provide the Bible’s “opinion” on the subject of tattoos. What was once somewhat uncommon in the local community surrounds us these days. I find it appropriate to revisit ...

I am broadly interested in the variability in human behaviour: how cultures adapt to similar social problems with vastly different practices, or how cultures grow to have similar practices for ...