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	Topics BME (website) Topic Home BME stands for Body Modification Ezine. It is an online magazineMagazine A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase b... that is famous for its coverage of extreme body modification. BME chronicles the current and historical body modificationBody modification Body modification is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, such as ... world internationally; covering tattooTattoo Summary A tattoo is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin: in technical terms, tattooing is micro-pigment implantation.... ing, piercing, suspensionSuspension (body modification) A suspension is the act of suspending one's body from hooks that have been put through body piercings.... , ritual scarificationScarification Scarification is a permanent body modification that uses scar tissue produced by the body to form designs, pictures, or word... , and similar acts in its public sections. For a price, it also has a members' area called BME/extreme which focuses on implantImplant The term *implant* has different meanings:... s, amputationAmputation Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or surgery.... , eunuchEunuch A eunuch can be either a castrated man or, in ancient terms, any man who is impotent with women for a wide variety of reason... s, subincisionSubincision Subincision is a form of body modification consisting of a urethrotomy, in which the underside of the penis is incised and t... , saline inflationTissue expansion Tissue expansion is a technique used by plastic and restorative surgeons to cause the body to grow additional skin, bone or ... , siliconeSilicone Silicones, or polysiloxanes, are inorganic-organic polymers with the chemical formula [R2SiO]n, where R = organic grou... , and other heavy body transformations, as well as an adults-only area called BME/hard which covers the erotic application of these modifications and acts, including cock and ball tortureCock and ball torture Cock and ball torture is a sexual activity involving torture of the male genitals.... (CBT) as featured in the hoax video . History and content BME? was started as a web site in 1994 by Shannon LarrattShannon Larratt [Image:ShannonLarratt.jpg\|Shannon Larratt, 2006\|right\|thumb]]... and is the first body modification website and is by far the largest (with hundreds of thousands of unique images and stories), and covers a full spectrum of body modification (rather than being limited to only tattoos for example). BME offers evidence to counter many myths about body modification and the body modification community, and has many FAQFAQ FAQ is an abbreviation for "Frequently Asked Question".... s and an online wikiWiki A wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some av... encyclopedia and documentation of risks and safety information. BME was further expanded in 2000 by the addition of IAM.BMEzine, an online community, which hosts blogBlog Blog is the contraction universally used for weblog, a type of website where entries are made , displayed in a reverse... s specifically for members of the body-modification community. Users are able to view profiles and diary entries of other users, as well as participate in forums and chats with other members. In late 2005, BME added both a video sister site, BMEvideo and a body modification blog, Modblog.BMEzine.com. The site also publishes hoax articles each year on April Fool's Day. Both Shannon and Rachel Larratt have cameo appearances in the Kevin SmithKevin Smith Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, film director, and the founder of View Askew Productions.... feature Clerks IIClerks II *Clerks II* is the 2006 sequel to Kevin Smith's 1994 movie Clerks, and his sixth feature film to be set in the View As... . On May 14, 2008 Shannon Larratt posted onto ModBlog that he would no longer be an employee of BME and has chosen to transfer his share of the site to Rachel. BME BBQs Patrons of the BME website and its IAM community have often gathered for barbecuesBarbecue Barbecue is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or ho... where they can meet with one another. Historically, the largest of these BBQs, known as BMEFest, were held in or around TorontoToronto Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Onta... , OntarioOntario Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces.... and generally on Canada DayCanada Day Canada Day is Canada's national holiday.... with hundreds of participants. The festivities of BMEFest almost always include suspensions, fireworks, Pain OlympicsPain Olympics The Pain Olympics is one of the events that occasionally occurs at BME BBQs, especially BMEFest.... , grilled food both veganVeganism Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle that avoids using animals and animal products for food, clothing and other purposes.... and otherwise, and there is usually a commemorative T-shirtT-shirt A T-shirt is a shirt, usually buttonless, collarless, and pocketless, with a round neck and short sleeves, that is pulled on... for each event. It is generally free to attend but it is encouraged to sign up ahead of time and may be exclusive to a private group. Censorship The BME site is blocked by many Internet filtering services intended to protect children (and workplaces), for reasons such as nudityNudity Overview Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing.... , tortureTorture Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a mean... , and other adult content. It was banned by Germany's Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende MedienFacts About Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien The Bundespr?fstelle f?r jugendgef?hrdende Medien or BPjM is an upper-level German federal agency subordinate to the ... in 1999 as a "danger to the youth". In December 2005, the German agency forced GoogleGoogle Google Inc. is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 7 September 1998, that ... to remove the site from search results returned by `www.google.de` . Shannon Larratt writes in : When Germany came after BME for "endangering the youth" and demanded that I make changes to the site to comply with German law, my response was to simply not visit Germany again (and I'm a German citizen). When the US started to pressure us, we moved all of our servers and presence out of the country and backed off on plans to live in the US. No changes were ever made to the site, and no images were ever removed — if anything, the pressure made me push those areas even more. Since Larratt severed association with the site it has begun to censor itself. ModBlog no longer features images of ritual cutting on the main page (they are still posted but require the user to follow a link to the actual content) out of concern that it might act as a trigger for viewers who suffer from self-injury. The practice began when Larratt passed on the responsibility of updating ModBlog and came to light in response to user comments posted on `ask.bmezine.com` . 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