#bmezine

[boydmods4lifee]

[epellucid]

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[fev4rrr]

[saturnsexual]

I spent a long time trying to list the ways that we really are different from animals. We might be smarter, be better with tools, have more complex linguistics, or have a more advanced social structure, but these are simply questions of scale. The only thing that makes us something more than beasts is the fact that we consciously (and destructively) modify our bodies to match some personal desire. The specific reason is different from person to person, of course — sometimes it's aesthetic, sometimes it's functional (read: makes sex better), sometimes it's political or cultural, and sometimes it's simply "because I wanted to". The important thing is the courage to make the fundamental statement: "I am not my biology. I will be the one to decide what my body grows into."

— Shannon Larratt, ModCon: The Secret World of Extreme Body Modification

[waybackwanderer]

BME: Body Modification Ezine Feb 2000 Archived Web Page

[yetanotherknitter]

me: hell yeah I'm gonna follow the body modification encyclopedia!

instagram every time BMEzine posts: ooh, that's a really spooky image. like. some real sensitive material right there. you sure you wanna see that? real sure? like, reeeeealy?

[dvdregionseven]

our commitment to keeping BME operational remained unwavering. However, we encountered an unprecedented challenge when multiple systems experienced a catastrophic failure

My guy, that site stayed heartbleed vulnerable longer than the heartbleed detector remained functional. RAR what's left, seed the torrent, and fuck off.

[smaller-comfort]

Sometimes, when writing porn, one finds oneself staring into the abyss, and the abyss whispers, "monster fucking and size difference." And you're like, okay sure, that's not that big of a leap at all.

But sometimes the abyss whispers "watersports" and you kind of just have to sit there on the edge and rethink your life choices.

Literacy was a mistake!

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

Does anyone else remember the person that used to be featured on modblog with an absolutely massive scrunnel? He used to wear a mayo jar as jewelry, would be at a lot of the bmezine events so there would be lots of photos of people sticking their arms/dicks etc through his scrotum

I’ve always loved scrunnels because they are just plain silly (can’t pierce the scrotum, so instead let’s cut a slit in front and back and then stitch it back up as a donut).

…how hard do you think it would be to convince a doctor doing an orchi to get creative with how they closed things up 😬

[boydmods4lifee]

[dykepuffs]

This was a whole legal thing in the 90s and 00s - A bodymod practitioner and her husband in the US, got arrested and charged for "FGM" because they did (obviously, very much consensual!) clit removal and labia removal for people who wanted it done.

BMEzine had a huge legal fund for them, selling t shirts with the slogan "If pussy cutting is outlawed, only outlaws will cut pussy".

And the same applies in the UK - Here even female* genital piercing is in a legal grey area, because the laws intended to prevent FGC of children don't have any cutouts for adults who actively want genital modification. Of course "normalising" labiaplasties are still allowed, because conformity is key.

Effectively, government STILL has difficulty understanding that we might have inner lives and desires and can only "protect" us in the same way as you'd protect an endangered squirrel.

Also if someone wanted to have their clitoris removed it would be so much different than fgm. Like, just the process alone would be so much different

yes, that’s exactly my point! even if the surgeries were identical from the perspective of what’s being done, they would still be incredibly fucking different because in one case, a person is doing something they actively want and are informed about because it will make their life better, while in the other case, a person is having something done to them regardless of what they want that will in all likelihood make their life worse.

anyone who tries to compare the two is just proving that what they really care about is the supposed sacredness of the clitoris and vulva, not the autonomy and well-being of the people involved. they’re so focused on trying to protect the “female body” that they forgot they’re also supposed to give a shit about the people living in those bodies.

[bruno-bma]

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[3liza]

its just not that hard to inject the local anesthetic, make a couple millimeter slices in front of my earlobes, and stitch up the slack. i think your average BMEzine guy could have me in and out of the chair in like 90 minutes with equal or superior results to the guy with the PhD whos going to charge me 15 grand. I'm not talking about implanting or grafting anything, its purely superficial incision and stitching and you can see how much to take off just by pinching your cheeks here and there

it's bullshit there no safe way for me to do cosmetic surgery at home. if i let someone else do it they're just gonna fuck it up

[sirclainabraxas]

[smaller-comfort]

A brief outtake from the modern AU thing I am Not Writing:

--

“I was so skinny back then,” lamented Resh'an.

“You looked like a slutty, redheaded stick insect.” Aephorul sniffed critically.

“The natural consequence of a diet composed almost entirely of coffee, cigarettes, and cock.” Resh'an sighed, leaning against Aephorul. “Those were the days.”

“I, for one, do not miss the grad student lifestyle.” He pressed a kiss to the top of Resh'an's head. “I like you better like this, anyway.” He grabbed a double handful of his husband's ass by way of demonstration.

Resh'an threw back his head and laughed, a beautiful, carefree sound; the kind of laugh that made Aephorul's chest hurt and his knees weak. “One of these days I'll go to the gym with you.”

“God, I hope not.” He leaned down for a kiss, meeting the shape or Resh'an's laughter with the sharp edges of his own smile.

--

(Terrible meme and some nattering below the cut because I'm Not Writing It but maybe I am writing it a just a *little* bit)

You know that post that's like "love those stories where all a character needs is some therapy and a consensual bdsm relationship but that's not what happens here." Well, that *is* what happens in this AU.

For someone who couldn't hack grad school I really do like to stick a lot of characters into academia!

Aephorul and Resh'an are in their mid/late 40s; Aephorul works for an evil pharmaceutical company and Resh'an has tenure at a local university (*not* Rutgers, but 2010 is a bad time for them regardless) in the chemistry department.

Aephorul almost dies in a motorcycle accident in the early 2000s, but he doesn't actually get rid of his bike until Resh'an ends up with a concussion after another accident in 2016.

Anyway. Resh'an's the one who's usually wearing a chastity device; they both like being tied up; Aephorul has a dick piercing and likes needles, in general; Resh'an makes a bratty sub but a dedicated service top.

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

So in the early to mid aughts there was a lot of experimentation happening in the extreme body modification scene, notably being documented on BMEzine and related sites. This is when surface piercings and subdermal implants got popular, and people kept trying to find truly new and unique body mods.

This was the same scene where a bunch of people got the whites of their eyes tattooed blue (yes like in Dune), some people cut off joints of their fingers, people are removing their genitals to achieve the full nullo look.

The experiment that caught my attention the most was implanting magnets. The idea had started from one individual commenting that a metal splinter in their finger allowed them to feel the movement of the magnet in a speaker. So they theorized that implanting a tiny magnet would be even more reactive. So they got some tiny rare earth magnets. But they are not body safe, so they coat them in implant grade silicone. Next, they implant them in the tips of fingers on one hand.

The results were much more than they expected. The magnet would react to subtle changes in magnetic fields while the nerves in the finger were sensitive enough to notice these tiny motions. And the result was that they could feel the electromagnetic spectrum. They had augmented their body with a new sense by hacking the sense of touch. They could feel where wires run behind walls, sense the behaviors of motors, and be generally aware of the electromagnetic noise that surrounds us constantly.

At this same time, I am in school doing my industrial design thesis and had landed on 'hacking and augmenting human senses and it's social implications on design' and it was not just a little inspired by what was happening in the bodmod world.

The focus of my thesis had narrowed to the idea that sense hacking specifically and body hacking in general were not questions of If but When, and as such the best plan of action we can take now is to decide how we want those technologies in our lives before they become ubiquitous (cut to 2025 and i'm crying in my Alexa-free home)

Implanting magnets into my fingers felt like the perfect, ultimate culmination of my thesis and general need to sacrifice my body in the process (see previous note about dysphoria)

The problem was that the people who did it discovered the implants had a lifespan of about 6 months. After half a year of wear and tear the silicone would rip and the magnets would dissolve into the tissue, requires the chunk of flesh to be excised. So, wasn't going to do that. The idea floating around as an alternative was to create a tiny gold, sealed implant.

So I kinda lied, before-- I did actually have a piercer who was humoring me about doing them, I would just need to supply implant grade magnets. Which I wasn't able to do

Which in hindsight is probably good because i have been in and out of MRIs recently and that would be a fun way to tear my fingers off

Babe I need so much context for the finger magnet post please. What does that mean

Ok so this is kinda a rabbit hole so i’ll start with the tl;dr

When I was doing my thesis in college i was seriously considering getting magnets implanted in my fingertips which would allow me to feel magnetic waves, and therefore electric currents. It was part of my thesis delving into body and sense hacking as the next frontier in design

(long ass answer to follow)