Body Piercing world record, which Jeremy Stroud broke on May 2nd 2009, by receiving 1197 piercings in a single day, clears all doubt about human endurance and potential to resist pain.
The self-confessed body modification enthusiast, Jeremy Stroud, from Arlington Texas, was under the needle for five hours. Well worth enough, when you can set an unprecedented body piercing record!
Body Piercing professional, Tyson Turk inserted 800 needles into Jeremy’s back, 300 in his right arm, 50 in his leg and 20 in his left arm. Although the piercings were removed later, yet they did leave behind the scars of victory and courage. Read more »
And with 6005 piercings, there is no reason why she shouldn’t be! “I like pain, I love pain”, Elaine proclaims proudly. Over the years, the lady has taken the love for body piercing and body jewelry to an altogether different level. Recently titled as the world’s most pierced woman by Guiness Book of Records, Elaine is a nurse by profession and has been honored with the title on previous occasions as well. She was first recognized by Guinness World Records in 2000, when she had 462 piercings, with 192 on her face alone.
A closer look at Elaine and her body piercing passion
Nine years later, Elaine has managed to keep her record intact. With more piercings added, she has now taken the count to a whopping 6005. The most interesting part is that a good majority of her piercings are genital, both internal and external. She sports 500 genital piercings! Read more »
We just added a new article about stretching your piercing in our articles section.
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We have learned from a recent poll that we did that many people were unaware of our blog at all, and especially were not sure how to use a blog so here is a little help for that. If you like our blog (which you can find here http://www.thechaingang.com/blog/ ) then you want to subscribe to our blog feed, so that every time we post something new, you will know it instantly. To do this most all browsers such as Firefox can have the Feedreader built right in, but may need a “Feed Reader” depending on your platform and browser in order to read it and organize all of your other feeds that you are sure to add once you get started with this.
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With this, we hope that the whole RSS, blogging and feed reader concepts have been made a little easier!
Well the results are in and the blog is overwelmingly staying. At a vote of about 650 to 2, we will be keeping the blog. We do hope that more of you will post your comments though. There are no requirements, you can post long stories or short one line comments, there is no right or wrong, just please comment when you think something to yourself, or think that you can add something. Also let us know when you have ideas, or when there are other features for the site or stories that you would like to see. We want to hear what you have to say.
Just in this vote on whether to keep the blog or not we learned several things. One of which was that a few of you did not like to have to create an account to comment. Well we have already changed that, and you can comment immediately no account needed.
We will also add more jewelry posts as many liked getting to see the items that way.
Have a great week /weekend
Hi All,
We are considering no longer bothering with blog since it seems that most of you do not care. We hope that you will tell us that we are wrong, but we have only gotten a couple comments from all of you in the 2-1/2 years that we have been posting. Tell us simply to keep it or ditch it.
Either comment to this article, or email us at blog@thechaingang.com
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Body jewelry has been worn throughout history for a variety of reasons from religion to showing the class status of a family. Jewelry has been used to accent clothing, facial features, and other parts of the body such as naval rings.
Today, body jewelry is more popular today than ever before. Once Americans saw, the unique beauty of nose rings while visiting India in the 1960’s this became a huge and important beginning to all types of body jewelry we see today. America was more than likely the last place on earth for body jewelry to be in such demand, believed to have been caused by the Puritan beliefs that are so prominent in America since its early days. Read more »
Organics are all the rage, and body jewelry has been and is going even more organic and eco friendly! With more and more designers turning to organic jewelry, the trend is fast catching on and has taken the world, fashion ramps and runways by a definite storm. These jewelry pieces are beautiful, low maintenance, cost effective and a sure-shot fashion statement! Read more »
Big and bold jewelry designs have been making their presence felt for a very long time. But lately, dainty designs had gained popularity again. However this season is all about the bold body jewelry making a huge come back. Even in regular jewelry, light bangles will be replaced with chunky bracelets and fine finger bands will be replaced with large, stone studded rings. This fact has been validated by biggies such as The Wall Street Journal (http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/apparel-accessory-stores-womens-specialty/4159878-1.html) and Christian Dior (http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/11/style/rgem.php). Read more »
Piercings are so hot and in right now! No matter how much some folks frown upon them, everyone wants and gets pierced left, right and center, very literally! While it is completely your decision to get pierced and/or tattooed, there are some times when the decision seriously has to be thought over.
It is a common notion that you have to tolerate at least some pain in order to look nice, and it is true as well. But sometimes, it is just not worth it, especially if the result is too much pain, bleeding and/or perennial discomfort. Read more »
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May 6, 2009 10:51 am | 
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