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Father of the Modern Primitive Movement
Fakir Musafar has practiced myriad forms of body modification and has championed these practices as an essential part of spiritituality for many decades.
Now as he approaches his 80th birthday, he's still teaching body piercing and branding at his own accredited California school.
Who is Fakir?
Fakir Musafar (born Roland Loomis, August 10, 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is considered the father of the modern primitive movement.modern primitives by Scott Treleaven - October 18, 2000 He has experimented on his own body with body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and suspension, and has documented, shared and taught others as part of his life's work making him an underground icon in BDSM, kink and fetish communities.
Fakir Info and Links
- Welcome to Fakir.org
- About Fakir, Father of Modern Primitive Movement
Fakir Schools, Learn the Art, Skills & Magic of Body Piercing & Branding 
Spirit + Flesh, Fakir's Ecstatic Shamanism Workshops - bodyplay.com
- The Fakir Piercing Intensives - School of Body Piercing and Branding Instruction, and Body Play Magazine - Fakir's Amazing Non-Fiction Photo Magazine
- FAKIR MUSAFAR
- The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present the photographs of Fakir Musafar in his first exhibition in Los Angeles. Fakir considers himself a shaman, artist, master piercer and body modifier. This exhibition of self portraits and portraits of others is "an amazing compilation of images that underscore a peculiar beauty with the sheer wonderment of body/spirit interplay."
- Fakir Musafar / Modern Primitives
- The whole purpose of "modern primitive" practices is to get more and more spontaneous in the expression of pleasure with insight. Too much structuring somehow destroys any possibility of an ecstatic breakthrough in life experiences.
- Queer History
- Fakir Musafar by Susan Stryker, Director, GLBT Historical Society
- disinformation | modern primitives
- Coined as a term in 1979 by shamanic contortionist and "the Father of Modern Primitive Movement", Fakir Musafar, the 'Modern Primitive' is a person who participates to varying degrees in physical ritual, expropriation of ethnic symbology, and bodily adornment, often carried to the point of permanent surgical manipulation (tattoos, branding, piercings, implants).
- People: Fakir Musafar: a theory full of holes
- Publication Date: Wednesday Mar 29, 1995 People: Fakir Musafar: a theory full of holes
SPIRIT + FLESH
Fakir Musafar: Spirit + Flesh
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This book is a beautiful collection of Fakir's photography which spans nearly his entire life. Starting with self-images he took as a teenager of his own "body play" experiments, the imagery then spans across all genders and orientations engaged in a wide arragy of body art practices and rituals.
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Encounters with Fakir
- Fakir Musafar
- Interview with Fakir by Shannon Larrett, BMEzine
- Karl Rove's pierced family jewels, pt. 3: Fakir Musafar and PFIQ (audio)
- Another pioneer in those early years of ampallangs, dydoes, and nipple rings -- intimate ornaments we now take for granted in alt circles -- was Fakir Musafar.
- Fakir audio interview with BoingBoing
- In this audio interview with BoingBoing, Fakir Musafar tells us about what drew him to his lifelong fascination with body modding; about the formative years of the piercing industry; and about the quiet, curious, friendly, and very heavily pierced man he knew as Louie "Indy" Ward. (links to MP3)
- Interview with Fakir Musafar By: Sensuous Sadie (mastersteelow.com)
- Fakir Musafar is known worldwide for his fifty years research and personal exploration of primitive body decoration and rituals, and has been called
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- I'm making plans for my trip to a conference called Thunder in the Mountains. Thunder is always my favorite leather conference, but this year's going to be extra-intense. Max and I will be participating in a ritual, conducted by Fakir Musafar, called an energy pull.
- Interview with Fakir Musafar
- Fakir Musafar is perhaps the most audacious body-modification advocate today. A shaman and master piercer, Fakir was born Roland Loomis in 1930 in South Dakota. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in creative writing; he has spent much of his life as an advertising executive. He has developed his expertise through research and over 40 years of personal practice of primitivistic body ritual.
More books by and about Fakir
Body play: The self-images of Fakir Musafar
This is Fakir's first book of his self-portraiture during body play rituals. It's out of print but worth tracking down to fans and collectors. I have a copy of this myself, a signed, limited edition.
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Modern Primitives (Re/Search)
This book contains an in-depth interview with Fakir, about his life and his experiences. There are tons of pictures as well. This book was what sparked body art moving into the mainstream of American culture.
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TOTAL Vol. 2: The Body (Total, Volume 2)
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Fakir in the Blogosphere
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- BDSM-Bondage-Fetish-Girl BDSM-Bondage-Fetish-Girl May 19, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
- My partner grew up in San Francisco and he attributed his piercing and BDSM interest to Fakir as well. I never new who Fakir was until my partner educated me and helped me explore that side of myself. But this is quite an in depth article...I forwarded this on to my partner...thanks!
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- mumbly mumbly Nov 28, 2008 @ 2:43 am
- I was lucky enough to talk to him in San Francisco, at the Folsom St. Fair. I was and still am in awe of his abiltities (for lack of a better word). But, I think meeting him was the inspiration for my body peircing fetish. I guess you might say that I idolize Fakir.
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