Ear piercing has existed continuously since ancient times, including throughout the 20th century in the Western world. However, in the mainstream Western culture of North America, Europe, Australasia, etc., it became a relative rarity from the 1920s until the 1960s. At that time, it regained popularity among westernized women, and was eventually adopted by men in the hippie community, and later the punk subculture before it broke into the mainstream. Ear piercing, of either or both ears, has always been practiced by men in many non-Western cultures. By the 1980s, male ear piercing had become somewhat common in westernized cultures, although men usually only pierced one of their ears. Today, single and multiple piercing of either or both ears is extremely common among Western women and somewhat common among men.
Less conventional forms of body piercing have also existed continuously for as long as ear piercing, but generally not in Western cultures. For example, women in India routinely practice nostril piercing, and have done so for centuries.
In the 1970s, body piercing gained popularity in the gay BDSM subculture for various reasons. In 1975, Jim Ward opened The Gauntlet, America's first storefront body piercing operation, in Los Angeles.
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Mecherotic Robot Art
This guy makes art machines that connect to your body, and based on your biofeedback ( like sucking on a nipple ), can create music, and other strange virtual obscurities
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Bios 4 - Art Exhibition in Seville, Spain
An exhibition of biotech art, including its relationships with the human body, nano-entities, environmental issues, artificial life and robots.
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When you die, don't get buried or cremated, get plastimated.
A new human body preservation process, turns a body into works of art and museum display pieces.
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Bread body parts - conjures pastry into art
Englishmen like bread with jam, butter and of course with tea. I like bread with butter plus chicken floss. In Thailand they have this gross bread body parts.
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Zen and the art of plastic surgery
I spent my weekend holed up in the hotel, catching the entire, latest cycle of Nip/ Tuck. (Mind. Body. Soul. Did I mention body?)
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A man serves his friends meatballs made from his liposunctioned body fat!
Calling it art, a man served his friends meatballs made with his own body fat. Cannibalism? Disgusting!!!!!!!!!
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Donate Your Body to Art and Science?
"Body Worlds, a controversial yet wildly popular traveling exhibit of real human bodies and body parts, has been raising eyebrows since it was first displayed in 1996. Nearly 20 million people have since visited one of its three touring editions."
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Bodyart
In the whole history of humanity, people have decorated themselves - one way or another with clothing, jewellery, tattoos, piercing, scars, permanent changes of the bone structure, plastic surgery - and by painting the body. Such decoration is known as Body Art, simply meaning the art made on the human body.
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I see dead people
I understand in donating your body for science when you die. But donating it for art?????
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Hilarious predictions of 2007
Feast of Fools podcast shares it's oddball predictions about art, science, body and tech for 2007/
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Book Review: Where Is Ana Mendieta?
Ana Mendieta seizes the body and ritual, putting flesh on the bones of performance art.
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Wack! : Art and the Feminist Revolution
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first international survey of a remarkable body of work that emerged from the dynamic relationship between art and feminism in and around the 1970s.
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Naked art……
We recently attended an exhibition at HOF Art, on Ratchada Road. It was a fun night with a lot of people, some great reggae, high quality paintings and — the highlight for me — a body art show.
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Acupuncture
AcupunctureAcupuncture is the art of inserting very thin needles just under the skin to stimulate specific points on the body in order to bring about relief of pain and wellness to the body. This is accomplished by restoring the balance of qi to the body.
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Mapping the body through sound
The sounds made by the body using sensitive medical equipment such as scanners and the trusted stethoscope, will then be made into an interactive art installation triggered by visitors walking through a model of a body.
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Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the art of inserting very thin needles just under the skin to stimulate specific points on the body in order to bring about relief of pain and wellness to the body. This is accomplished by restoring the balance of qi to the body.
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How To Draw Anime (Manga) Style Art
Learn how to draw anime style art from a pro. Solid tutorials for drawing faces and bodies.
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Photography - Body art black and white photography
This site is dedicated to the artist work on the human body, male but female as well. The nudity is presented as a piece of art and in an inappropriate way. It deserves a visit.
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Top 10 Funny Body Art Pics From Around The Net
Awesome compendium of some of the funniest/freakiest body art from around the net. Know of any better? Comment the URL!
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Sun glasses embrace tan lines and form temporary body art
These "glasses" are attached to the body with a water soluable body adhesive. The eyewear is designed to embrace tan lines created by sunglasses as a form of temporary body art.
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Awesome Body Painting
Body painting is a form of body art, considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Because full body paintings usually involve nudity, most body painting artists would not paint persons under the age of majority.
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The Best Of Body Paint
Amazing art and beautiful illusions. There are many body paint images floating around the net, but these are the finest.
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Rainbow Hand Painted Art
This artist does a lot of cool rainbow effects body art using body paints. Check it out.
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Marvelous body art!
Do those girls wear any clothes? Surprisingly, not! It's all body art! Very professionally done!
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Photo: great body art
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
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