Cultures around the world still honor ancient traditional practices of body modification, or the intentional and often irreversible alteration of the skin. For many practitioners, body modifications ...

Twitch’s policies around content it deems “sexual” are inconsistently applied, but body painting—creating art using one’s face and torso as the canvas—doesn’t run afoul of them. Body painting even has ...

Trina Merry (left) and Andy Golub (right) are two contemporary body painters amazing and awakening global audiences with their performance art. Somehow we hominoids have a way of demystifying and ...

Source: Photo by Min Ah KIM, World Body Painting Festival 2013 I have to admit: I am a sucker for reality TV. It feels so good to watch something “easy” after a day of teaching and researching at my ...

In movies, on billboards, and across social media, the ideal male body is often presented as a sort of marble statue. Massive shoulders, razor-sharp abs, and barely a trace of fat. It’s a look ...