Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or phenotype. It is often done for aesthetics, sexual enhancement, rites of passage, religious beliefs, to ...

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 ...

Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter, North West, stepped out in New York City on Tuesday sporting her signature look — long, green-blue hair and black platform shoes — but it was her new body ...