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 ...

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 ...

A medical expert breaks down extreme body modification cases and explains the procedures, risks, and motivations behind them.

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 ...

Amanda Bynes has recently made headlines by unveiling her latest body modification, which includes lip fillers, alongside a significant weight loss journey aided by Ozempic. At 39 years old, Bynes is ...

A drastic new procedure, which inflicts tiny fractures to the ribs, emerges at the forefront of body modification. A drastic new procedure, which inflicts tiny fractures to the ribs, emerges at the ...

The man ran a website where subscribers could watch video of the "illegal mutilations," which included castration and penis removal; he was also accused of keeping "trophies" and cannibalism. A ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

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 ...

Vanna White is in her body modification era. The Wheel of Fortune icon, 68, got her first piece of ink courtesy of daughter Gigi Santo Pietro, a tattoo artist, sharing the entire process via Instagram ...