The history of our obsession with tiny waists, from corsets to the Kardashians. This corset was designed around 1851 by Madame Roxy Caplin with minimal, flexible boning to achieve fashionable curves.

Fakir Musafar started photographing his own piercings and body modifications in secret in his family home in 1944, when he was just 14 years old. Wearing jockstraps, head coverings, neck stretching ...