Body Modifications
Man Nears the Automaton Era
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 05, 2025 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, 1930s
Walter Easler, Human Pincushion
Nowadays, we are used to all kinds of piercings in daily life. But this fellow still merits a look.
This young man is literally "on pins and needles" but it doesn't seem to worry him in the least. He is Walter Easler, of Lorain, Ohio, and he is able to pierce his skin with impunity because of sensory anesthesia with which nature has endowed him. The pins and needles which penetrate his lips and cheeks do not cause him the slightest pain, and he recalls with amusement his father's perplexity when he was a lad as to how he could be punished since spankings could not be felt.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 23, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Human Marvels, Twentieth Century, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Tails for humans
Millions of years ago our ancestors had tails. Design student Cheng Chang believes that when humans start living in space they'll need tails again. So he built one.When our hands and feet are no longer suitable for the task of controlling our movement in zero gravity. we need a new form of body extension
More info: Royal College of Art
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 21, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Space Travel
Ashkasha
Ashkasha from Lara Maltz on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 26, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, Psychedelic
The Fat Roller
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 04, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1910s
Bust Cream or Food
If it doesn't enlarge your bust, you can serve it for dinner.Source: 1897 Sear Roebuck Catalogue
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 26, 2023 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Advertising, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century
Zoom!
Before it was videotelephone software, Zoom was a bustline enhancer.
Cosmopolitan - Feb 1957
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 05, 2023 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1950s
A Swishing Sound
A letter to the editor that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (August 18, 1994):
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 29, 2022 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace
Secret Shoulder Straps
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 09, 2022 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Fashion, Inventions, Nineteenth Century
Rejuvenique Facial Toning Mask
Still being made and sold! Get yours via the Amazon link below!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 04, 2022 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Inventions, Technology, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
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