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Opening Up: Body Modification Interviews 1995-2008

Author's webpage: http://www.zentastic.com/blog/opening-up/ Introduction: Between 1995 and 2008 I had the opportunity and the honor of interviewing a great many exceptional individuals involved in body modification, body art, and body ritual for the website I’d founded in 1994, BME: Body Modification Ezine. One of the purposes of this website was not only to inform readers about body modification subjects, but to do so in an in-depth and compassionate manner in order to “normalize” the activities that at the time many thought were, for lack of a better word, “nuts”. I think that on the whole, this mission was successful. Perhaps a little too successful, as some of the mystique that made these activities even more appealing has become a thing of the past. It’s interesting reading some of these interviews now and seeing what seemed so strange and exciting back then has become so mundane today. After all, in 1995, piercing and tattoo studios were still rare. Some of the people interviewed here were well-established when we chatted, and others were very early in their lives and have come a long way since. Others have left the industry entirely. Some of the procedures discussed have cha

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