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Extreme types of beauty are among the most beautiful manifestations of humanity's obsession with pain and pushing the boundaries of the human form. Beauty is Pain is a latest Dazed Beauty series by author Lexi Manatakis that traces the history of the world's most extreme body modifications while being an overarching interrogation of the philosophy of human pain and its link to beauty. “Physical difference frightens people in our culture greater than the rest. You'll be able to be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically – put a bone in your nose – and boy, you are in trouble!” For extreme body modification artist Fakir Musafar, physical beauty is the last word type of taboo. From...

From flesh hook suspension to genital piercings and tightlacing, for this artist pain was the last word form of beauty Extreme types of beauty are a number of the most beautiful manifestations of humanity's obsession with pain and pushing the boundaries of the human form. Beauty is Pain is a latest Dazed Beauty series by author Lexi Manatakis that traces the history of the world's most extreme body modifications while being an overarching interrogation of the philosophy of human pain and its link to beauty. “Physical difference frightens people in our culture greater than anything. You'll be able to be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically – put a...