His never-before-seen works are collected in a new documentary, "A Body to Live In." ...

Fakir Musafar, a gasp-inducing practitioner and leading advocate of “body play” — the term he used to describe piercing, branding, tattooing, footbinding, corseting, body suspension and other ...

Angelo Madsen’s bold new documentary, “A Body to Live In,” which will screen at SF’s Roxie Theatre on March 28, accomplishes a lot while spotlighting new uses for clothes pins, car chains, and ...

Fakir Musafar first found pleasure in pain as a teenager named Roland Loomis in his family’s basement in the mid-1940s. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion for piercing, branding, tattooing, ...

Fakir Musafar, an icon of the modern body modification culture, died at his home in Menlo Park August 1. He announced in May that he was fighting advanced lung cancer. He was 87. Born Roland Loomis, ...

When body piercing began shifting in the late 80s and early 90s from an obscure underground practice to something more mainstream, there was a particularly fascinating but fraught character at the ...

The hooks slip in to your skin, like a fish caught on a line. Each hook aligned with a particular area of your body to keep a secure grasp on you without ripping out flesh. It takes years to get it ...

I returned from the leather conference called Thunder in the Mountains two weeks ago, and since then, alert readers have been e-mailing me, asking, "Did you do the energy pull with Fakir Musafar? How ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Fakir Musafar first found pleasure in pain as a teenager named Ronald Loomis in his family’s basement in the mid-1940s. It was the ...

I’m making plans for my trip to a conference called Thunder in the Mountains. Thunder is always my favorite leather conference, but this year’s going to be extra-intense. Max and I will be ...