GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Whether it’s the location, number or type, piercings are becoming more intense with the years. It’s evolved from simple ear piercings to nose and navel piercings, to various ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Inside a dimly lit bar in Shanghai, amazed spectators held their smartphones high as artist Wei Yilaien suspended a couple in mid-air from hooks piercing their bodies. Onlookers ...

These days, it's not uncommon to come across people who have modified their bodies in one way or another. There are people who prefer to do something simple like getting a helix ear piercing and there ...

Extreme piercing for purity in Thai vegetarian festival Mouths pierced with swords, knives and gun barrels at Thailand's vegetarian festival make for a bizarre -- and grotesque -- spectacular, but ...

If you ever find yourself sitting in a surgical chair, sweating a little bit because you’re about to have a 10 gauge needle shoved through your penis, it might help to know that the piercer has a ...

A Danish man who claims to have spent $4,200 on tattoos, piercings and body modifications admits not everyone loves the work he’s had done — and he’s sharing strangers’ weirded-out reactions. “I’ve ...

July gestures next to her boyfriend Jason Schaller while they are suspended from hooks pierced through their skins by professional body artist Wei Yilaien at a bar in Shanghai, China. Reuters SHANGHAI ...

In a previous PT blog-post, I challenged you to consider whether body piercing and tattooing are forms of self-expression or self-mutilation. I would now like to focus on an even more fascinating (pop ...