SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Inside a dimly lit bar in Shanghai, amazed spectators held their smartphones high as artist Wei Yilaien suspended a couple in mid-air from hooks piercing their bodies. Onlookers ...

ZAGREB (Reuters) - On the rooftop of an empty building in Zagreb, Dino Helvida carefully pierces his client Kaitlin's torso, legs and face before putting hooks through her skin. Shortly after, he ...

PHILADELPHIA -- With 14 hooks pierced through her back and legs, Anna Quinones sat suspended in the air in a renovated factory building in Philadelphia as a local sideshow performance group swallowed ...

TAMPA, Fla., April 6 --He kneels in front of his crowd, securing the two stainless steel fish hooks in his back to the pulley rigged to the ceiling. The music starts, loud and vibrant, and he is ...

In a previous PT blog-post, I challenged you to consider whether body piercing and tattooing are forms of self-expression or self-mutilation. I would now like to focus on an even more fascinating (pop ...