She altered her body — and upped her body count. A Russian mom who’s modified her appearance by shaving her head and adding dozens of tattoos and piercings says her one-night-stands adore her ...

Body modification is not a new phenomenon. In fact, with how easily accessible piercings and lip fillers are, they are all too common around us. But then there are some who are not satisfied with the ...

Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

The alleged ringleader of a British-based body modification club responsible for the castrations of nearly 60 men will spend at least the next 22 years behind bars. Over six years, U.K. officials ...

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 ...