Extreme body modification

Heh. I may have enjoyed a BDSM past but this is extremely hard core.

Three men have been arrested on charges of performing castrations on apparently wwilling participants in a sadomasochistic "dungeon" in a rural house, authorities said Friday.....

..... Sheriff's investigators said Richard Sciara, 61, Danny Reeves, 49, and Michael Mendez, 60, admitted performing at least eight surgeries, including castrations and testicle replacements, on six consenting clients over the past year. None of the three is licensed to practice medicine, officials said.....

..... The sheriff's office had investigated reports of sadomasochistic acts at the house in 2004, but concluded there was nothing illegal going on because the participants appeared to be willing adults.

Actually, I have to make mention that surgical "enhancements" by themselves do not constitute any form of SM. These guys are into extreme body modification, which is in itself a totally seperate fetish. It's only SM when the body parts are left intact, whole, and still attached to one's body.

Still, not really surprised that there are people who would be willing to have actual surgery. I have read about saline injections, which enlarge the scrotum and penis. So what's one more step in actual removal? Heh.

More information, in general terms, on extreme body modification can be found here :

• BME : which has been around for a long time and has a huge following
  
• ModCon, which is BME's yearly convention
  
• An article, which I found, and which seemed fairly objective in it's discussion on the various sub-cultures within.
  
• And finally, the main stream explanation courtesy of wikipedia
  

Me? I'm just into tattoos. I still have all my limbs, eh?