Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

Roland Loomis reinvented himself as Fakir Musafar, a mysterious master of extreme bodily modification and pain tolerance. From his teenage years, he took ...

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 ...

From beauty standards to marriage traditions, societies have historically imposed rules on women's bodies in the name of ...

A neck coiled with rope. A waist cinched with a leather belt. Lips clipped with clothes pins. Nipples festooned with fishing lures. To behold the early photographic self-portraits of Fakir Musafar, ...

Vanna White has been a household name in the U.S. for over 40 years as the famous letter turner of Wheel of Fortune, But what fans may not know about 67-year-old White is that she may have some future ...

A GOP congressman’s staffer has been accused of staging an elaborate hoax in which she allegedly claimed to have been kidnapped by anti-Trump activists. Natalie Greene, 26, allegedly tied her own ...

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 ...

I am a single mom to an 18-year-old son who will be going off to college in the fall. Recently, my phone was damaged and completely unusable for about a week while I went through the process of ...