Inactive BME.com/Body Modification Community - TW: crazy people, gore, NSFW

[Linako 2.0]

 

[Mrs Paul]

And then complain about how you can't get a job.

Meh, these people probably aren't looking for the types of jobs where this would be a problem. *shudder*

 

[Whatisgoingon]

I think you could feasibly change the title of this thread to 'teaching people not to click every spoiler they see', and it'd still be very accurate.

I still haven't learned.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Every picture and video I've seen here just screams obvious parental issues.

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

I'm sure there's someone out there who is trying to figure out how to safely get a giant fucking hole in their head.

Just make sure you get it on the appropriate side.

Spoiler: Safe for work

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

Here's a guy who laments that people aren't understanding enough of his amputation fetish. Contains images.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Splitting your tongue just screams to me "I love sucking dicks".

Also I thought this was fucking hilarious. I really want to know this dude's explanation for piercing his ankle.

Edit: never mind, it's not fake. How the hell is this dude going to be able to walk? And wouldn't he constantly have to worry about stabbing himself? (The comments about "oh, piercing artists who are concerned about the safety of your customers, go away!" Yeah, because caring about not like, crippling someone for life is somehow a bad thing)

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Edit: never mind, it's not fake. How the hell is this dude going to be able to walk? And wouldn't he constantly have to worry about stabbing himself? (The comments about "oh, piercing artists who are concerned about the safety of your customers, go away!" Yeah, because caring about not like, crippling someone for life is somehow a bad thing)

The article indicates that the guy did it to himself so he didn't need to persuade an artist to do it. It might be less significant than it looks though.

 

[AnOminous]

The article indicates that the guy did it to himself so he didn't need to persuade an artist to do it. It might be less significant than it looks though.

It's between the bone and the Achilles tendon. So he can walk. However, it's not even a piercing, but basically an open wound that has to be constantly kept from healing to keep it there, because that's not remotely natural.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

However, it's not even a piercing, but basically an open wound that has to be constantly kept from healing to keep it there, because that's not remotely natural.

Isn't that exactly what a piercing is?

 

[Bugaboo]

I kind of think because tattoos and facial piercings are becoming more and more socially acceptable and accepted on job sites people need to come up with new and weird ways to do things to their body to make sure they'll never get a job in a professional environment again.
Gonna have to go work in a warehouse away from the public I think, if the interviewer would even give them the time of day

 

[Mrs Paul]

Like I said, I have my nose pierced. But I can always get a place holder, so people won't notice. (At my last job, it at a science museum and since even one of my supervisors had his ears gauged, nobody batted an eye) I'd also like to get a tattoo* when I have the cash, but like, on my leg, not on my face.

Something like that though? Ankle holes, cutting your finger tips off, horns, etc? Christ. What happens if that gets gangrene? Splitting your schlong -- can you still have sex? Eye tattooing? This isn't people doing it because tattoos have meaning, like getting your kid's name on your arm, or an eyebrow ring. This is just being weird for the sake of being weird. I mean if you want to look like a weirdo, go for it. But don't get all pissy when people call you one.




*My name is Kat, and I absolutely love art nouveau.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Those brave enough to click through spoilers may have noticed that BME is something of a sausage party, however malformed. Why do so many dudes and so few ladies seem to be involved in extreme voluntary surgical modifications, particularly those involving the genitals? Is it because men are intrinsically more prone to acting out and taking risks? Or is it because the legal and social repercussions of performing and disclosing procedures on women are more severe?

Here, it might be informative to take a trip down memory lane - a path that, unsurprisingly, leads straight to gore and drama.

BME founder Shannon Larratt seemed to relish the technical challenges associated with growing an online community, but often expressed frustration and occasionally, contempt for its burgeoning userbase. He felt like BME's users were increasingly soft, cosseted and overly-PC, treating body modification as a fashion trend rather than a lifestyle. Motivated by some combination of spite and a poorly conceived attempt to toughen them up, Shannon used his influence as the site's owner to shelter individuals who were disruptive to the community and transgressed emerging community norms.

Enter Todd Bertrang. In an era when many piercers and tattoo artists were establishing clean, professional studios and courting mainstream legitimacy, Bertrang pushed the boundaries of practicing medicine without a license from deep within the fetish scene. He was not only a contrarian voice, but also a tremendous perv and proud of it. In keeping with his general antipathy towards anything that might be construed as censorship or coddling, Shannon at that time permitted minors to access BME chat. Bertrang crept on multiple female users, including underage girls, refusing to stop when asked and making many people uncomfortable.

Other chat regulars were eventually fed up with Bertrang's overall abrasiveness and inappropriate sexual behavior toward minors. They began reporting Bertrang's actions to various law enforcement agencies, to little effect. As frustration mounted, some tipsters reported explicit images uploaded by Bertrang in which he had removed substantial portions of his much-younger girlfriend's genitals during a series of fetish scenes. The woman involved was in her mid-20s, referred to herself as Bertrang's slave, was branded as his property, looked forward to having her genitals cut off and fed to her. Either maliciously or through honest error, tipsters represented her to law enforcement as underage or pre-pubescent, as her post-modification anatomy no longer resembled that of an adult human female.

Bertrang was investigated by the FBI under California’s laws against female genital mutilation. He fell for the bait in a federal sting operation and was indicted and ultimately convicted for obscenity, child pornography, conspiracy to violate anti-FGM laws, and being a felon in possession of firearms. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment, and with that, he went from being a problematic and divisive figure to something of a martyr.

Several of Shannon Larratt's interviews with Bertrang are compiled in his book, MEET TOMMY (nsfl). Bertrang is now out of prison, active on youtube and facebook, and apparently trying to land a reality show.

 

[DNJACK]

Laugh all you want about those people, but some pics here succeded in turning me on.

 

[Count groudon]

I already have a hard enough time hitting the toilet when I pee with one dick. Why the fuck would anyone want two?

 

[Mrs Paul]

Those brave enough to click through spoilers may have noticed that BME is something of a sausage party, however malformed. Why do so many dudes and so few ladies seem to be involved in extreme voluntary surgical modifications, particularly those involving the genitals? Is it because men are intrinsically more prone to acting out and taking risks? Or is it because the legal and social repercussions of performing and disclosing procedures on women are more severe?

Here, it might be informative to take a trip down memory lane - a path that, unsurprisingly, leads straight to gore and drama.

BME founder Shannon Larratt seemed to relish the technical challenges associated with growing an online community, but often expressed frustration and occasionally, contempt for its burgeoning userbase. He felt like BME's users were increasingly soft, cosseted and overly-PC, treating body modification as a fashion trend rather than a lifestyle. Motivated by some combination of spite and a poorly conceived attempt to toughen them up, Shannon used his influence as the site's owner to shelter individuals who were disruptive to the community and transgressed emerging community norms.

Enter Todd Bertrang. In an era when many piercers and tattoo artists were establishing clean, professional studios and courting mainstream legitimacy, Bertrang pushed the boundaries of practicing medicine without a license from deep within the fetish scene. He was not only a contrarian voice, but also a tremendous perv and proud of it. In keeping with his general antipathy towards anything that might be construed as censorship or coddling, Shannon at that time permitted minors to access BME chat. Bertrang crept on multiple female users, including underage girls, refusing to stop when asked and making many people uncomfortable.

Other chat regulars were eventually fed up with Bertrang's overall abrasiveness and inappropriate sexual behavior toward minors. They began reporting Bertrang's actions to various law enforcement agencies, to little effect. As frustration mounted, some tipsters reported explicit images uploaded by Bertrang in which he had removed substantial portions of his much-younger girlfriend's genitals during a series of fetish scenes. The woman involved was in her mid-20s, referred to herself as Bertrang's slave, was branded as his property, looked forward to having her genitals cut off and fed to her. Either maliciously or through honest error, tipsters represented her to law enforcement as underage or pre-pubescent, as her post-modification anatomy no longer resembled that of an adult human female.

Bertrang was investigated by the FBI under California’s laws against female genital mutilation. He fell for the bait in a federal sting operation and was indicted and ultimately convicted for obscenity, child pornography, conspiracy to violate anti-FGM laws, and being a felon in possession of firearms. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment, and with that, he went from being a problematic and divisive figure to something of a martyr.

Several of Shannon Larratt's interviews with Bertrang are compiled in his book, MEET TOMMY (nsfl). Bertrang is now out of prison, active on youtube and facebook, and apparently trying to land a reality show.

Holy fucking shit, that's messed up. Here Larratt totally defends the guy and claims "it was entrapment". He's seriously never heard of a sting operation?WTF?

I like his argument that it was totally okay for Bertrang to consider FGM on a minor, because hey, who wouldn't compromise their principles for a shitload of money? As Jon Stewart said, "If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values, they're hobbies."

Yuck.

 

[AnOminous]

Holy fucking shit, that's messed up. Here Larratt totally defends the guy and claims "it was entrapment". He's seriously never heard of a sting operation?WTF?

The law of entrapment is an interesting thing, and is not what most people think it is.

The classic entrapment case would be of someone like John DeLorean, the namesake of the DeLorean Motor Company whose distinctive car with gull-wing doors appeared in Back to the Future. Despite having a distinctive vehicle with a cult following that is still popular to this day, DeLorean's company was failing.

The FBI set up an entrapment operation to convince him to become involved in a cocaine smuggling operation that didn't exist outside their scheme, and over a period of time, slowly convinced DeLorean to become involved in the scheme. He had no prior history of involvement in drugs and, other than his deepening financial woes, no motivation to participate in such activities.

In other words, they created a crime out of nothing and got an otherwise innocent man to participate in something he would otherwise never have done.

This is not a legitimate sting operation.

DeLorean defended himself and won the case based on an entrapment defense.

This case shows what you need to win on such a defense: "(1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct."

Without both, you don't have the defense. This guy Bertrang apparently repeatedly and at great length went on and on about his specific predisposition to commit exactly the offense he was "entrapped" into, therefore the fact that the government arguably induced it is insufficient, by itself, to add up to the kind of entrapment that gets you, a person who actually committed the offense charged, to a dismissal of the case or a not guilty verdict.

I like his argument that it was totally okay for Bertrang to consider FGM on a minor, because hey, who wouldn't compromise their principles for a shitload of money?

He did more than consider it.

He actually contracted to do it. That's just as illegal as a hit man agreeing to a contract on someone.

Also how do they excuse the fact that he pled guilty to distribution of child pornography?

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Also how do they excuse the fact that he pled guilty to distribution of child pornography?

He claims he wasn't given a chance to read the plea before he signed it.

And that the "child pornography" in question was a perfectly innocent family snapshot of his girlfriend's shirtless toddler that he'd uploaded to his personal website.

And that he - or maybe it was his girlfriend - downloaded a thumbnail gallery from a "barely legal" site that the feds misconstrued as child porn in order to build their case and further their careers.

And he had also saved some cropped images of a cucumber shoved up someone's ass that could've been anyone's ass...but turned out to be a child's.

Totally believable stuff like that.

 

[AnOminous]

He claims he wasn't given a chance to read the plea before he signed it.

This is absolute bullshit. You don't even need to go further.

That's not how it works, and that's not even how it doesn't work.

You don't just sign a plea and then instantly go to prison. You have to actually plead guilty in open court, with what is called an allocution of guilt. In even its most rudimentary form, this means verbally pleading guilty to each count, along with admitting to the factual basis for the plea.

You don't just magically get warped to prison with no idea how you got there, like you signed a magic contract with Satan.

So my guess is they would just defend any fellow depraved pervert with any imaginary justification they could invent, because nobody could take bullshit like that seriously.

 

[Megapiss]

BME released a book about extreme body mods, which is available as a free PDF. It is very NSFW and contains hundreds of giant pictures of mutilated dicks, so click at your own risk. You can scroll to any random page and find something horrifying.