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Seeing someone's body hanging from skewers might make some of you squeamish. But it's not a new phenomenon. In 1805, the Louis and Clark Expedition witnessed a Mandan sacred ceremony where tribal men skewered their chests and hung themselves from a lodge ceiling as a warriors' rite of passage. Almost 200 years later, Australian artist Stelarc shocked the art scene of the late '70s and early '80s by suspending his body with hooks in galleries as performance art. Today, radicals of the body modification community participate in public and private body suspensions in positions such as the lotus, superman, suicide, and coma. Participants claim the dangerous experience can be spiritual, an adrenaline rush, or the ultimate test of willpower. Whether body suspensions disgust or intrigue you, one thing is for certain -- don't try this at home.
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