Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jessica Grose and Meher Ahmad on why plastic surgery and fillers no longer feel like a secret — or a ...

The man ran a website where subscribers could watch video of the "illegal mutilations," which included castration and penis removal; he was also accused of keeping "trophies" and cannibalism. A ...

A Connecticut Army vet has taken home two Guinness World Records after inking and modifying 99.98% of her body — and is still carving out space for more. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina officially became ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Setting a Guinness World Record wasn't something Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina set out to do when she first began her body transformation. "I chuckle a little bit because I say I got two Guinness World ...

"To be the most tattooed woman and to have the most body modifications feels a little crazy, I am grateful and excited for the future – and of course I am not done," said Fuerzina in a news release.

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

An army veteran has become the world’s most tattooed woman after a ten-year journey to tattoo 99.98% of her body – and she’s still not finished. Esperance Fuerzina, 36, has now officially been ...