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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extreme piercing, once a niche subculture, is all the rage across the city now. From intricate dermal piercings and dramatic ear hole extensions to subtle nape piercings, body modification enthusiasts ...

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 ...

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 ...